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It is a wast of time to enact laws to govern the conduct of men if these laws are based on the assumption that the men to be affected are what they ought to be rather than what they are

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Parsons Cooke 1841 Causes of the Decline of Doctrinal Preaching shaped note It is a wast ofCook, Parsons. Causes of the Decline of Doctrinal Preaching. A Sermon, preached before the Pastoral Association of Massachusetts, in Park Street Church, Boston, May 25, 1841. Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin, 1841. First Edition. [12077] Removed, no wrapper, 8 1 2 x 5 1 4 inches, 24 pp., light foxing. Good. Pamphlet. The text is 2 Timothy 4: 3 4, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine&c." The causes mentioned are human