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  • The Penalties inflicted by human law, having their foundation in the intrinsick ill-desert of crime, are in their nature vindictive as well as corrective….

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The Penalties inflicted by human law, having their foundation in the intrinsick ill-desert of crime, are in their nature vindictive as well as corrective….

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The Penalties inflicted by human law, having their foundation in the intrinsick ill-desert of crime, are in their nature vindictive as well as corrective….

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Let him fix his mind upon the existence of real ill-desert antecedent to actual sin, and the condemnation will appear just and natural.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • For one to be saved through grace means that God is no longer treating him as he deserves but that He has sovereignly set the law aside and that He saves him in spite of his ill-desert — cleansing him from his sin, of course, before he is fit to enter the divine presence.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • Would our Lord have put such language upon the lips of one held up by himself, as a model of gospel humility, to illustrate its deep sense of an ill-desert?

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • To his eye, all secrets are known, and all degrees of guilt perfectly apparent; and to him alone belongs the vengeance which is due for moral ill-desert.

    Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

  • Would our Lord have put such language upon the lips of one held up by himself, as a model of gospel humility, to illustrate its deep sense of an ill-desert?

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • God, as he beholds afar off, the returning sinner "seeking an injured father's face" who runs to clasp and bless him with unchiding welcome; and on the other, the contrition of the penitent, turning homeward with tears from his wanderings, his stricken spirit breaking with its ill-desert he sobs aloud.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Would our Lord have put such language upon the lips of one held up by himself, as a model of gospel humility, to illustrate its deep sense of all ill-desert?

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

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