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Here before us is the holy bible, or book, for this is what the word bible means. Acts 19 we left paul in his circuit visiting the churches, but we have not forgotten, nor has he, the promise he made to his friends at ephesus, to return to them, and make some stay there. Acts 19 we left paul in his circuit visiting the churches acts 18. It is an act of selfdenial, and mortification of the flesh, a holy revenge upon ourselves, and humiliation under the hand of god.
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