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“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

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James Sharp
James Sharp

James Sharp (May 4, 1613 - May 3, 1679) was a prominent English bishop during the period of the Reformation. He played a significant role in the reform of the Church of England and had a lasting impact on the development of the Anglican Church. more

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