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I. ERRONEOUS VIEWS OF GOD.

1. All goodness.

2. All severity.

II. THE EVIL RESULT OF THOSE VIEWS.

1. They are partial.

2. The one leads to presumption.

3. The other to despair.

III. HIS TRUE CHARACTER.

1. A Sovereign.

2. A Father.

(W. W. Wythe.)

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KJV: And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

WEB: But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;