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delusions, introduced through them. Satan moved upon his agents
to destroy Christ’s devoted followers. O the sufferings and agony,
which they made the precious of God to endure! Angels have kept
a faithful record of it all. But Satan and his evil angels exulted, and
told the angels who administered to, and strengthened those suffering
saints, that they would kill them, so that there would not be left a
true Christian upon the earth. I saw that the church of God was then
pure. There was no danger of men with corrupt hearts coming into
the church of God then; for the true Christian, who dared to declare
his faith, was in danger of the rack, the stake, and every torture which
Satan and his evil angels could invent, and put into the mind of man.
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