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far less from God. Not even fathers honor them who sleep, far less doth God. Let us labor
for a little time, that we may have rest for ever. We must at all events be afflicted. If we are
not afflicted here, it awaits us there. Why choose we not to be afflicted here, that there we
may have rest, and obtain the unspeakable blessings, in Christ Jesus, with whom, to the
Father together with the Holy Spirit, be glory, power, and honor, now and ever, world
without end. Amen.
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