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out price.' Again ' Seek ye the Lord while 
he may be found, call upon him while he 
is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and 
the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let 
him return unto the Lord, and he will have 
mercy upon him ; and to our God, for he 
will abundantly pardon.' Hear also what 
God saith by the mouth of the prophet Eze- 
kiel ' Have I any pleasure at all in the 
death of the wicked, and not that he should 
return from his ways, and live ? As I live, 
saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the 
death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn 
from his ways and live : turn ye, turn ye 
from your evil ways ; for why will ye die ?' 
Here are no exceptions made; God willeth 
not the death of a sinner. He says to no one, 
Thou art condemned from eternity ; but con- 
trariwise, ' Turn ye, turn ye; why will ye 
die?' 
" John the Baptist testified of Christ that 
He was 'the Lamb of God which taketh away 
the sins of the world.' And the Lord him- 
self said to his disciples ' If I be lifted up, 
I will draw all men unto me.' 
" My object in reciting these jpassages of 
