30. Ye also who have not yet
made this vow, who are able to receive it, receive it.2093
Run with
perseverance, that ye may obtain.
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Take ye each his sacrifices, and
enter ye into the
courts2095
of the
Lord, not of necessity,
having
power over your own will.
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For not as, “Thou shall not
commit adultery, Thou shall not
kill,”
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can it so be said, Thou shalt not
wed. The former are demanded, the latter are offered. If the latter
are done, they are
praised: unless the former are done, they are
condemned. In the former the
Lord commands us what is due; but in
the latter, if ye shall have spent any thing more, on His return He
will
repay you.
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“Supererogaveritis.” |
Think of
(whatever that be) within His wall “a place named, much better
than of sons and of
daughters.”
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Think of “an
eternal name”
there.
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Who
unfolds of what
kind that name shall be? Yet, whatever it shall be,
it shall be
eternal. By believing and hoping and loving this, ye
have been able, not to shun marriage, as forbidden, but to fly past
it, as allowed.
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