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Joy is of the saints! and who shall put it on, but they alone?
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Grace is of the elect! and who shall receive it except those who trust in it from the beginning?
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Love is of the elect? And who shall put it on except those who have possessed it from the beginning?
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Walk ye in the knowledge of the Most High without grudging: to His exultation and to the perfection of His knowledge.
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And His thought was like a letter; His will descended from on high, and it was sent like an arrow which is violently shot from the bow:
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And many hands rushed to the letter to seize it and to take and read it:
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And it escaped their fingers and they were affrighted at it and at the seal that was upon it.
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Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal: for the power that was over the seal was greater than they.
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But those who saw it went after the letter that they might know where it would alight, and who should read it and who should hear it.
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But a wheel received it and came over it:
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And there was with it a sign of the Kingdom and of the Government:
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And everything which tried to move the wheel it mowed and cut down:
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And it gathered the multitude of adversaries, and bridged the rivers and crossed over and rooted up many forests and made a broad path.
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The head went down to the feet, for down to the feet ran the wheel, and that which was a sign upon it.
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The letter was one of command, for there were included in it all districts;
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And there was seen at its head, the head which was revealed even the Son of Truth from the Most High Father,
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And He inherited and took possession of everything. And the thought of many was brought to nought.
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And all the apostates hasted and fled away. And those who persecuted and were enraged became extinct.
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And the letter was a great volume, which was wholly written by the. finger of God:
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And the name of the Father was on it, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to rule for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
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