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inflict most inhuman tortures with relentless cruelty, which would
well compare with the cruelty papists and heathens exercised towards
Christ’s followers. Said the angel, It will be more tolerable for the
heathen and for papists in the day of the execution of God’s judgment
than for such men. The cries and sufferings of the oppressed have
reached unto heaven, and angels stand amazed at the hard-hearted,
untold, agonizing, suffering, man in the image of his Maker, causes
his fellow-man. Said the angel, The names of such are written in
blood, crossed with stripes, and flooded with agonizing, burning tears
of suffering. God’s anger will not cease until he has caused the land of
light to drink the dregs of the cup of his fury, and until he has rewarded
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unto Babylon double. Reward her even as she rewarded you, double
unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath
filled, fill to her double.
I saw that the slave-master would have to answer for the soul of his
slave whom he has kept in ignorance; and all the sins of the slave will
be visited upon the master. God cannot take the slave to heaven, who
has been kept in ignorance and degradation, knowing nothing of God,
or the Bible, fearing nothing but his master’s lash, and not holding
so elevated a position as his master’s brute beasts. But he does the
best thing for him that a compassionate God can do. He lets him be as
though he had not been; while the master has to suffer the seven last
plagues, and then come up in the second resurrection, and suffer the
second, most awful death. Then the wrath of God will be appeased.
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