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Postscript: The Result of Our Sin



"Ah, what a heavy weight was my sin to cause such a bloody sweat in a frosty night! My dissimulation was the traitorous kiss; my ambition the thorny crown; my drinking iniquities like water made [Christ] drink gall and vinegar; my want of tears caused Him to bleed; my forsaking my Maker made Him to be forsaken of His Father. Because the members of my body were instruments of iniquity, therefore the members of His body were objects of such cruelty; because my soul was so unholy, therefore His soul was so exceeding heavy."

-- George Swinnock (1627-1673)




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