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... no doubt , the real feelings of his soul when he said , " I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart ; for I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ , for my brethren , for my kinsmen , according to the flesh .
... no doubt , the real feelings of his soul when he said , " I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart ; for I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ , for my brethren , for my kinsmen , according to the flesh .
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| Title | Short Missionary Discourses, Or Monthly Concert Lectures |
| Author | Enoch Pond |
| Contributors | Dorr & Howland, E. & G. Merriam (Firm) |
| Publisher | Dorr and Howland. E. and G. Merriam, printers., 1824 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 259 pages |
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