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For the creature that serveth thee, who art the Maker increaseth his strength against the
unrighteous for their punishment, and abateth his strength for the benefit of such as put their trust
in thee.
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Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, and was obedient to thy grace, that
nourisheth all things, according to the desire of them that had need:
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That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know, that it is not the growing of fruits
that nourisheth man: but that it is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.
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For that which was not destroyed of the fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted
away:
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That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks, and at the dayspring
pray unto thee.
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For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's hoar frost, and shall run away
as unprofitable water.
WISDOM OF SOLOMON 17
For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.
2
For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their
houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay
there
exiled from
the eternal providence.
3
For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of
forgetfulness, being horribly astonished, and troubled with
strange
apparitions.
4
For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear: but noises
as of waters
falling
down sounded about them, and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.
5
No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the bright flames of the stars endure
to lighten that horrible night.
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Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: for being much terrified,
they thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.
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As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was
reproved with disgrace.
8
For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves
of fear, worthy to be laughed at.
9
For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being scared with beasts that passed by, and
hissing of serpents,
10
They died for fear, denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.
11
For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with
conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.
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For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.
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