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Jerusalem: They hunger no more, neither thirst any more, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne doth feed them and lead them unto living fountains of water. And it is of the essence of the Gospel, so far as I understand it, that there are no joys of the future which have not their possible Loginnings in this life.
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