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die.” What does dat mean? Not, surely, that if
you sinner He let you get into heaven. I ask you,
captain, whether you are a sinner, or whether you
pure and holy, and trust to Christ, and love Christ,
and fit to go and live for ever and ever in the pure
and holy heaven with Him? Understand, I do
uot ask whether you are a great sinner in your own
sight, but whether you have ever committed any
sins; and remember, God says, “the soul that

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sinneth,

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not only the soul that is a great sin-
ner.

The captain looked much annoyed. ‘Yes, of
course, I have committed some sins; but I don’t
see why. God has any right to charge them against
me.’

‘God made this world, and all things that are
therein. God rules this world, and God made His
laws, and He says they are just and right, and
God says, “The soul that sinneth shall surely
die,”’ answered Paul, solemnly. ‘ Captain under-
stand, it is not I who say that. God says it. But
though God is a God of justice He ig full of love
and mercy, and He has therefore formed a plan
for the benefit of sinning men, by which man’s
sins can be washed away, by which His justice