“In proportion as we " grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ," we shall grow in the desire that the Redeemer's sovereignty may be more widely and visibly extended.”

—  Henry Melvill

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.

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