| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: strengthen faith? Although they hear and know that we do not say this
of bread and wine, because in itself bread is bread, but of such bread
and wine as is the body and blood of Christ, and has the words attached
to it. That, we say, is verily the treasure, and nothing else, through
which such forgiveness is obtained. Now the only way in which it is
conveyed and appropriated to us is in the words (Given and shed for
you). For herein you have both truths, that it is the body and blood of
Christ, and that it is yours as a treasure and gift. Now the body of
Christ can never be an unfruitful, vain thing, that effects or profits
nothing. Yet however great is the treasure in itself, it must be
comprehended in the Word and administered to us, else we should never
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: delightful, and since matters have now taken so favourable a turn, I am
quite sorry that I ever imparted my apprehensions to you; for the pleasure
of learning that the danger is over is perhaps dearly purchased by all that
you have previously suffered. I am so much agitated by delight that I can
scarcely hold a pen; but am determined to send you a few short lines by
James, that you may have some explanation of what must so greatly astonish
you, as that Reginald should be returning to Parklands. I was sitting about
half an hour ago with Sir James in the breakfast parlour, when my brother
called me out of the room. I instantly saw that something was the matter;
his complexion was raised, and he spoke with great emotion; you know his
eager manner, my dear mother, when his mind is interested. "Catherine,"
Lady Susan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: court held firmly to the theory of a Chouan leader or a body of
Vendeans hotly pursued. Others were convinced that the person thus
harbored was a noble escaped from the Paris prisons. In short, they
all suspected the countess of being guilty of one of those
generosities, which the laws of the day called crimes, and punished on
the scaffold. The public prosecutor remarked in a low voice that it
would be best to say no more, but to do their best to save the poor
woman from the abyss toward which she was hurrying.
"If you talk about this affair," he said, "I shall be obliged to take
notice of it, and search her house, and THEN--"
He said no more, but all present understood what he meant.
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