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When then-if such they lot- thou seest thy judge, the sight of Him will kindle in thy heart all tender, gracious, reverential thoughts. Thou wilt be sick with Love, and yearn for Him, and feel as though thou couldst but pity Him, that one so sweet should e’er have placed Himself at disadvantage such, as to be used so vilely by a being so vile as thee. There is a pleading in His pensive eyes will pierce thee to the quick, and trouble thee and thou wilt hate and loathe thyself; for though now sinless, thou wilt feel that thou hast sinned, as never thou dids’t feel; and wilt desire to slink away and hid thee from His sight, and yet wilt have a longing eye to dwell within the beauty of his countenance. And these two pains, so counter and so keen- the longing for Him when thou seest Him not; the shame of self at thought of seeing Him- will be thy veriest, sharpest purgatory.