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"In No. 22 [i6], could not the end be: 'and we shall have no other god before Him,' or 'the Lord ' (from Exodus xx., 3)? Then instead of ' let not a prophet,' I propose :

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��Then I wish the following notes altered : —

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��Go up now, child, and look to-ward the sea. Has my

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