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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
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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
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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
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I do not fall into that fashion, for it expresses just what I am -- a hell-deserving sinner.
Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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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