The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 9 |
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Turn to your New Testament , and read to me what St. Paul says upon it , in Hebrews v . 12 , & c . J. “ For when for the time ye ought to be teachers , ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles ...
Turn to your New Testament , and read to me what St. Paul says upon it , in Hebrews v . 12 , & c . J. “ For when for the time ye ought to be teachers , ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles ...
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