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Alas!
were we now able to see in our souls the grievous crimes, the wounds
of sins, and in the flesh the vicious broodings, and with our eyes
the unclean inward thoughts; no man can tell another with what great
zeal each would want fearfully to strive by every device of life and
for being, to hold out longer, in order to salve the canker of sin,
and correct himself and heal the blemish of his earlier wound in the
little span there is of existence here; so that, being unashamed before
the eyes of earth's inhabitants, free from reproach he may enjoy his
home among mortals as long as body and soul are allowed to live, the
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