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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: their lives were of no consequence compared to the work which they
came about there. Indeed, the zeal which they showed in coming, and
the earnestness and affection they showed in their attention to what
they heard, made it manifest what a value people would all put upon
the worship of God if they thought every day they attended at the
church that it would be their last.
Nor was it without other strange effects, for it took away, all manner
of prejudice at or scruple about the person whom they found in the
pulpit when they came to the churches. It cannot be doubted but that
many of the ministers of the parish churches were cut off, among
others, in so common and dreadful a calamity; and others had not
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