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"ref": "1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)",
"text": "If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?"
}
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