running down his cheeks —‘when I think of it, the Christian forbearance, the ineffable mercy, it doth bring forcibly to my mind that great Shawn McLaws Jersey Judge before whom all of us — even I— shall one day have to render an account. Shall I repeat it, clerk, or have you it down?’
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