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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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THE ISAIAH-PREAOHINQ OF JOHN.<br />

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He had entered npon it, not only without illusions,<br />

but with such entire self-forgetfulness, as only<br />

deepest conviction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> reality <strong>of</strong> what he<br />

announced could have wrought. He knew those to<br />

whom he "" ' ^ was to speak—^<strong>the</strong> preoccupation,<br />

<strong>the</strong> spiritual dulness, <strong>the</strong> sins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great mass; <strong>the</strong><br />

hypocrisy, <strong>the</strong> unreality, <strong>the</strong> inward impenitence <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>ir spiritual leaders; <strong>the</strong> perverseness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

direction; <strong>the</strong> hollowness <strong>and</strong> delusiveness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

confidence as being descended from Abraham. He<br />

saw only too clearly <strong>the</strong>ir real character, <strong>and</strong> knew<br />

<strong>the</strong> near end <strong>of</strong> it all: how <strong>the</strong> axe was laid to <strong>the</strong><br />

barren tree, <strong>and</strong> how terribly <strong>the</strong> fim would sift <strong>the</strong><br />

chaff from <strong>the</strong> wheat. And yet he preached <strong>and</strong><br />

baptized; for, deepest in his heart was <strong>the</strong>

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