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For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and
forsook his ways.
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Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
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And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die.
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For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it
was not his will that men should come to nought:
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But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful
unto him which prepared life for them.
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And therefore is my judgment now at hand.
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These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee, and a few like thee. Then answered
I and said,
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Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the wonders, which thou wilt
begin to do in the last times: but at what time, thou hast not shewed me.
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He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part
of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
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Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to
visit the world which he made.
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Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:
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Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that
were before thee, even from the beginning.
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For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:
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Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works,
and endings in effects and signs.
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And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith,
whereby ye have believed,
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Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my
borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.
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Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast
them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
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For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;
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And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of
repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;
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The same must know it after death by pain.
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And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire
how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.
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