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The flames are 'gathering and lashing about' the sinner, and all that preserves him for a moment is 'the mere arbitrary will and uncovenanted unobliged forbearance of an incensed God.'
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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If private schools have not been forced to coeducate as VMI was, the reason might be no more than that they resemble Jonathan Edwards '"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": "All that preserves them every moment is ... mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance."
unknown title 2009
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If private schools have not been forced to coeducate as VMI was, the reason might be no more than that they resemble Jonathan Edwards '"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": "All that preserves them every moment is ... mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance."
unknown title 2009
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He has the insecure person’s fierce need of elimination; he needs to feel unobliged to his subject-matter, his friends, his publisher, his mistresses, his house, his role, his reputation.
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He has the insecure person’s fierce need of elimination; he needs to feel unobliged to his subject-matter, his friends, his publisher, his mistresses, his house, his role, his reputation.
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