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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

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The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

by Paul Kengor

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For the Vindication of the Truth: Baptist Symbolics Volume 1

by James M. Renihan

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral shone bright in the light of the moon, the day came ...more

Philip’s Quotes

“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God’s wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

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“do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

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“Nobody told you what a drag it was, getting older. Or at least, people did tell you, but you ignored them, because they were old.”
― Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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“If infant baptism is not commanded in Scripture, it is thus a violation of what is called the Regulative Principle of Worship.”
― James Renihan, For The Vindication of The Truth: a Brief Exposition of the First London Baptist Confession of Faith

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“And the Lamb of God not only did this, but was chastised on our behalf, and suffered a penalty He did not owe, but which we owed because of the multitude of our sins; and so He became the cause of the forgiveness of our sins, because He received death for us, and transferred to Himself the scourging, the insults, and the dishonour, which were due to us, and drew down on Himself the apportioned curse, being made a curse for us.”
― Eusebius, The Proof of the Gospel: Two Volumes in One

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