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Oh the rhetoric, the power of an unfeigned tear! Repentance hath more prevalency with the blessed God than all the robes, riches, crowns and diadems of the greatest potentates in the world.

George Swinnock George Swinnock, The Christian Man's Calling, Part I, on sacramental preparation / repentance, in The Works of George Swinnock, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1868) (public domain).

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