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claimed, reconciled, and adopted child, who had once been an apostate, prodigal, and disinherited outcast.*iclete

And hence, whether in another generation, Christianity shall become extinct, and the Church exterminate, depends upon the fact whether other millions shall arise to take the places of the living by coming out from the world, by separating themselves, believing Christ's doctrines, by submitting to Christ's discipline, by accepting Christ's promises,

"Who are they," says Arnobius (lib. i.) "perhaps you ask-(he is addressing the heathen, and appealing to the example of the first Christians)-tribes, peoples, nations, the incredulous human race? Had not the thing been public, and in some sort clearer than the light, they would never have given their assent to claims of this nature. Shall we say that the men of those times were inconsiderate, deceitful, stupid, brutish enough to feign having seen what they never saw?-and that when they might have lived with you in harmony and amicable union they chose gratuitous

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That having all things done.

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