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Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

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you, and make you perfect in every good work;<br />

examine for yourselves; let no man deceive you in<br />

these days <strong>of</strong> deception, when the devil has come,<br />

deceiving, if possible, the very elect. Now is the<br />

time for you to exercise the ‘sober second thought;’<br />

a good time for you to come over on the side <strong>of</strong><br />

truth, to choose the good, and refuse the evil. I<br />

beseech you do not say, ‘Nay, I will not examine!’<br />

Do not say, ‘I am well enough <strong>of</strong>f, and I have got<br />

the truth!’ Perhaps you have; if so, it will not hurt<br />

you to reexamine, for every reexamination only<br />

makes the truth the brighter, our evidence more<br />

clear, and our love for the truth more fervent; it<br />

helps to establish our faith and hope, and keeps us<br />

from wavering.<br />

“And now, dear reader, let me propose a few<br />

questions, in view <strong>of</strong> what I have said, for you to<br />

answer to God and your own soul; and I pray you<br />

not to trifle with them, or one <strong>of</strong> them, if you can<br />

find a plain Scripture text which authorizes the<br />

question. And I beg <strong>of</strong> you delay not to answer<br />

every question which may or can be answered; and<br />

let your answers be such as you will be willing to<br />

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