unpardonable sin

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    How comes the awful responsibility if in relation to our dead, if they do not be baptized they must be damned. (I wish I had 40 days to talk) what promises are made, what can be said if in the grave, God dwells in eternity, and he does not view things as we do, the greatest responsibility lade open us in this life is in relation to our dead Paul cannot be made perfect without us, for it is necessary that the seals are in our hands to seal our children & ...
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    March 10, 1842 ~ Thursday March 10th I spent the day at the printing office March 11, 1842 ~ Friday [FIGURE] 11th The Nauvoo Legion met on parrade this day I rode in the Legion in company with the quorum of the Twelve as assistant chaplain. It was the first time I had seen the Legein on parrade & it caused peculiar feelings to rest upon me while gasing [gazing] upon this Legion & contemplate the past present & to come. After the business ...
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    March 10, 1842 March 11, 1842 March 12, 1842
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    LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. of despair, believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin. However, I told him what the unpardonable sin was, and that he had not committed it; but that it was a trick of the devil to make him think so, in order to torment him. He then acknowledged that he went down to the wharf a few evenings before, with the intention of drowning himself, but when he looked into the cold, dark water he desisted and returned home, and had ...
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    March 1, 1838 March 5, 1838
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    Plainness & simplicity for untill you receive the fulness of the gospel of Christ you arne not a proper candidate either for a fulness of Celestial Glory or to become sons of Perdition. For those who have not received a fulness of the Gospel & the Holy Ghost will not always remain in hell but be redeemed in the own due time of the Lord & receive some kind of a glory like the stars in comparison to the son but whare God & Christ & celestial saints dwell they cannot come worlds without End but ...
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    any other that ever was or ever will be given & revealed unto man in this world or that which is to come, yea in all your kicking & floundering see to it that you do not this thing lest innocent blood be found in your skirts & you go down to hell. all other sins are not to be compared to sinning against the Holy Ghost & poroving a traitor to thy brethren (A final [FIGURE] key delivered from Joseph in the following language.) I will give you one of the keys ...
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    became verey weak, both in bodey & mind & she told me one day that she could not stand it aney longer, About this time the old Lady got verey low as if she was to pass away from this life & my Daughter told me that she prayed for the Lord to take her away & then she got scared & thought that she had comited & unpardonable sin & that she would be forever damed & there would be no salvation for her, I told her that ...
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    AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. [Column 1] and he felt impressed to say, "Walk in, gentlemen." There is probably no other chapter in the whole book that would have the same influence in causing any one to feed a person who professed to be a servant of God and asked for bread. After becoming acquainted with his circumstances I thought it providential that we were led to his house, for al- though he was a professor of religion and a Methodist ...
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    March 1, 1838 March 5, 1838 March 22, 1838 March 28, 1838