| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: but a vicar of Christ? And then what is that Church but a
multitude without Christ? What indeed is such a vicar but
antichrist and an idol? How much more rightly did the Apostles
speak, who call themselves servants of a present Christ, not the
vicars of an absent one!
Perhaps I am shamelessly bold in seeming to teach so great a
head, by whom all men ought to be taught, and from whom, as those
plagues of yours boast, the thrones of judges receive their
sentence; but I imitate St. Bernard in his book concerning
Considerations addressed to Eugenius, a book which ought to be
known by heart by every pontiff. I do this, not from any desire
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Ay, by the mass, Sir Daniel!" returned the knight. "Would ye
shoot upon your guardian, rogue? But here is this" - And there he
broke off, and pointing to Matcham, asked: "How call ye him,
Dick?"
"Nay," said Dick, "I call him Master Matcham. Know ye him not? He
said ye knew him!"
"Ay," replied Sir Daniel, "I know the lad;" and he chuckled. "But
he has fainted; and, by my sooth, he might have had less to faint
for! Hey, Dick? Did I put the fear of death upon you?"
"Indeed, Sir Daniel, ye did that," said Dick, and sighed again at
the mere recollection. "Nay, sir, saving your respect, I had as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: di'monds, and said the others would murder him if they got
the chance; and we was going to help him all we could.
We was bound for the sycamores when we heard them killing
him in there; but we was in there in the early morning
after the storm and allowed nobody hadn't been killed,
after all. And when we see Jubiter Dunlap here spreading
around in the very same disguise Jake told us HE was
going to wear, we thought it was Jake his own self--and
he was goo-gooing deef and dumb, and THAT was according
to agreement.
"Well, me and Huck went on hunting for the corpse after
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