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  • It is the work of God by which each one of us, as a hell-deserving sinner can receive a new life.

    50 Houses Torched In Witch Hunt. 11 Confirmed Dead. Christopher 2008

  • Is it right for Mrs. Stowe to present slaveholders, _en masse_, to the whole civilized world, as a set of hell-deserving barbarians?

    A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward

  • It is the fashion in our day to speak of the old description of "hell-deserving sinner" as marred by exaggeration, if not to say morbid.

    Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd

  • I do not fall into that fashion, for it expresses just what I am -- a hell-deserving sinner.

    Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd

  • One minute he's a guilty, hell-deserving sinner, the way John Hutton says he was, footering about the world, drinking and guzzling and leading a rotten life ... and then all of a sudden, he's hauled up and made to give his testimony and do

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

  • "Our cities, towns and counties indicate that they have been cursed by the presence of a heaven-defying and hell-deserving rabble." —

    History of Virginia 1924

  • It was very agreeable to hear their accounts how that when they were in the deepest perplexity and darkness, distress and difficulty, seeking God as poor, condemned, hell-deserving sinners, the scene of recovering grace through a

    A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

  • I went into the dining-room, fell down upon my knees, and said: "O Lord, have mercy upon me, a hell-deserving sinner, for Jesus 'sake."

    Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave Thomas Lewis 1892

  • You know if you wanted a drink of water, and asked me for it, you would believe, when you asked for it, that I would give it to you; so you must ask God, for Jesus 'sake, to have mercy upon you, a hell-deserving sinner.

    Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave Thomas Lewis 1892

  • He told me to go to God, and say: "Lord, have mercy upon me, a hell-deserving sinner, for Jesus 'sake; set me out Thy way, and not mine, for Jesus' sake."

    Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave Thomas Lewis 1892

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