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We should keep a register in our minds of all the eminent blessings and deliverances we have met with; some whereof have been so conveyed that we might clearly perceive they were not the issues of chance, but the gracious effects of the divine favor and the signal returns of our prayers.
Henry Scougal
Life of God in the Soul of Man, 112

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