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James, said he (looking wildly)
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Dear Jack, replied Mr. Stock,
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I am no minister; it does not become me to talk much to thee: but I know I may adventure to say whatever is in the Bible. As ignorant as I am I shall be safe while I stick to that.
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Ay, said the sick man,
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Oh, it is too late, too late for me.
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Let me finish the verse, said Stock,
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So he read on--_Let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon._ Here Brown started up, snatched the book out of his hand, and cried out,
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Is that really there? No, no; that's of your own putting in, in order to comfort me; let me look at the words myself.
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No, indeed, said Stock,
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I would not for the world give you unfounded comfort, or put off any notion of my own for a Scripture doctrine.
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But is it possible, cried the sick man,
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I dare not give thee false hopes, or indeed any hopes of my own. But these are God's own words, and the only difficulty is to know when we are really brought into such a state as that the words may be applied to us. For a text may be full of comfort, and yet may not belong to us.