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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 83

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 83

← Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2

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12 And they faid *, There is no hope but we will * walk after our own devices, and we will eyery one © do the imagination of his evil heart »,

[ There 15no hope of us, thou doft but labour in vain in talking tous mFor we are reſolved tor; 172 0N 1n our former Race. It call che Imaginations of their own He4it ren unlels it were in derifion. The fun of wha: they | faid was this, Jeremy, thou ha#ft as good ſay or do nothing, as talk 15, we are re{olved upon our Courle, and it tho: calleſt our

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