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““And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.”
““Shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?”
“Loudly did he cry, “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!”
““Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.”
“” Some of those camels do go through the needle’s eye, God does make some rich men enter the kingdom of heaven, but hard is their struggle, and desperate is the strife they always have against their proud flesh, to keep it under and subdue it.”
“And if you hear Him pass by, then cry, “Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy upon me.”
“Oh, cast yourself on your face before him and cry, “Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.”
“He takes it on His knee, saying, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.”
“Look at the swelling froth upon the bowl—“God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.”