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¹ Then answered Eliphas of Theman and sayde vnto him:² Yf we begynne to comon with the, peradueture thou wilt be myscontent, but who can witholde himself from speakynge?³ Beholde, thou hast bene a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weery hondes.⁴ Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou hast refresshed the weake knees.⁵ But now that the plage is come vpon the, thou shreckest awaye: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint harted.⁶ Where is now thy feare of God, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy life?

⁷ Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.⁹ For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.¹⁰ The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke.¹¹ The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.

¹² There is spoken vnto me a thynge in councell, which hath geuen a terrible sounde in myne eare,¹³ with a vision in the night, when men are fallen a slepe.¹⁴ Soch feare and drede came vpo me, that all my bones shoke.¹⁵ And when the wynde passed ouer by me, the hayres of my flesh stode vp.¹⁶ Then stode there one before me, whose face I knewe not: an ymage there was, and the wether was still, so that I herde this voyce:¹⁷ Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?¹⁸ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaythfulnesse amonge his owne seruauntes, and proude disobedience amonge his angels.¹⁹ How moch more the shal they (that dwell in houses of claye, whose foundacion is but earth) be moth eaten?²⁰ They shalbe destroyed from the mornynge vnto the euenynge: yee they shall perish, or euer they be awarre:²¹ and be taken awaye so clene, that none of the shall remayne, but be deed, or euer they be awarre off it.