AURICULAR CONFESSION 237 ledge of the human mind in its varieties, by the communication of the wants, the difficulties, and the sense of sin in the contrite heart. In other religious inter- course, where there is a nearer approach of character, the heart is warmed by the expansion, and improved by the inter- change of pious sentiments. The prophet even annexes to it a reward : " They that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, arid .a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name."
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