| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: up his doctrinal discourse with practical precepts he once more reproves the
Galatians. He is deeply displeased with them for relinquishing their divine
doctrine. He tells them: "You have taken on teachers who intend to recommit
you to the Law. By my doctrine I called you out of the darkness of ignorance
into the wonderful light of the knowledge of God. I led you out of bondage into
the freedom of the sons of God, not by the prescription of laws, but by the
gift of heavenly and eternal blessings through Christ Jesus. How could you so
soon forsake the light and return to darkness? How could you so quickly stray
from grace into the Law, from freedom into bondage?"
The example of the Galatians, of Anabaptists, and other sectarians in our day
bears testimony to the ease with which faith may be lost. We take great
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Macb. Stay you imperfect Speakers, tell me more:
By Sinells death, I know I am Thane of Glamis,
But how, of Cawdor? the Thane of Cawdor liues
A prosperous Gentleman: And to be King,
Stands not within the prospect of beleefe,
No more then to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange Intelligence, or why
Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way
With such Prophetique greeting?
Speake, I charge you.
Witches vanish.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: crowd of blacks.
I did not wait to be twice threatened; I obeyed at once, and
with a palpitating heart; and the next moment, the door was
locked from the outside and the key withdrawn. The interior
was long, low, and quite unfurnished, but filled, almost from
end to end, with sugar-cane, tar-barrels, old tarry rope, and
other incongruous and highly inflammable material; and not
only was the door locked, but the solitary window barred with
iron.
I was by this time so exceedingly bewildered and afraid, that
I would have given years of my life to be once more the slave
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