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Duties are ours events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.
Richard Cecil
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Richard Cecil
Age: 61 †
Born: 1748
Born: November 8
Died: 1810
Died: August 15
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When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.
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In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.
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