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Excerpt from David's Grief for the Death of Absalom a Type of God's Feeling for Sinners: A Sermon Preached by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Before the Church Penitentiary Association, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Thursday, April 23, 1857
Such was the piteous cry of agony with which David received the tidings of the death of one of his sons.
Absalom had been a murderer, and then had driven his father from his kingdom and throne; and yet when this son fell in battle against his father, the father was overwhelmed with grief, and would have preferred that his son had succeeded in his most unnatural treason, and that himself had died by the hands of his rebellious subjects.
The words of the Holy Ghost are, The king was much moved, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son I'
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