| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 23: 3 and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised.
Ezekiel 23: 4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
Ezekiel 23: 5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors,
Ezekiel 23: 6 clothed with blue, governors and rulers, handsome young men all of them, horsemen riding upon horses.
Ezekiel 23: 7 And she bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel 23: 8 Neither hath she left her harlotries brought from Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised her virgin breasts; and they poured out their lust upon her.
Ezekiel 23: 9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
Ezekiel 23: 10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, for judgments were executed upon her.
Ezekiel 23: 11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries.
Ezekiel 23: 12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, warriors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them handsome young men.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: and winter--all pursued, all caught, all flung aside.
--Stand apart; your fortune is said."
"All CAUGHT, however," retorted the laughing fair one, who was a
cousin of Miss Vere's; "that's something, Nancy," she continued,
turning to the timid damsel who had first approached the Dwarf;
"will you ask your fortune?"
"Not for worlds," said she, drawing back; "I have heard enough of
yours."
"Well, then," said Miss Ilderton, offering money to the Dwarf,
"I'll pay for mine, as if it were spoken by an oracle to a
princess."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: righteousness of faith was not taught clearly enough. Some
dispute that the keeping of the Lord's Day is not indeed of
divine right, but in a manner so. They prescribe concerning
holy-days, how far it is lawful to work. What else are such
disputations than snares of consciences? For although they
endeavor to modify the traditions, yet the mitigation can
never be perceived as long as the opinion remains that they
are necessary, which must needs remain where the righteousness
of faith and Christian liberty are not known.
The Apostles commanded Acts 15, 20 to abstain from blood. Who
does now observe it? And yet they that do it not sin not; for
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