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But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men,
because they should amend.
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For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never
wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
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And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not
called by thee?
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But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.
WISDOM OF SOLOMON 12
For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.
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Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting
them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe
on thee, O Lord.
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For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy
land,
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Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;
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And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man's flesh, and the feasts
of blood,
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With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with
their own hands souls destitute of help:
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That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God's
children.
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Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host,
to destroy them by little and little.
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Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to
destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:
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But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little, thou gavest them place of
repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred
in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.
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For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst thou for fear of any man give them
pardon for those things wherein they sinned.
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For who shall say, What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall
accuse thee for the nations that perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against thee,
to be revenged for the unrighteous men?
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For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to whom thou mightest shew that thy
judgment is not unright.
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Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.
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