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William Stoughton

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God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
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Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669. Compare: "God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, iv.

 
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