Salomon 11
2 The miracles done for Israel. 13 The vengeance of sinners. 28 The great power and mercy of God.
SHE prospered their works in the hands of thine holy Prophet.
They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched their tents in place where there lay no way.
They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
For by the things whereby their enemies were punished, by the same were the Israelites helped in their need.
For in stead of a fountain of running water, the enemies were troubled at the corrupt blood, which was to rebuke the commandment of the killing of the children, but thou gave unto thine own abundance of water unlooked for,
Declaring by the thirst that was at that time how thou had punished thine adversaries.
For when they were tried and chastised with mercy, they knew how the ungodly were judged and punished in wrath.
For these hast thou exhorted as a father, and proved them: but thou hast condemned the other as a righteous King, when thou did examine them.
Whether they were absent or present, their punishment was alike: for their grief was double with mourning, and the remembrance of things past.
For when they perceived that through their torments good came unto them, they felt the Lord.
And seeing the things that came to pass, at the last they wondered at him, whom afore they had cast out, denied and derided: for they had another thirst then the just.
Because of the foolish devises of their wickedness wherewith they were deceived, and worshiped serpents, that had not the use of reason, and vile beasts, thou sent a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for a vengeance, that they might know, they wherewith a man sins, by the same also shall he be punished.
For unto thine almighty hand, and made the world of naught, it was not impossible to send among them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions.
Of furious beasts newly created, and unknown, which should breath out blasts of fire, and cast out smoke as a tempest, or shoot horrible sparks like lightnings out of their eyes.
Which might not only destroy them with hurting, but also to kill them with their horrible sight.
Yea, without these might they have been cast down with one wind, being persecuted by thy vengeance, and scattered abroad through the power of thy Spirit: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, number and weight.
For thou hast ever had great strength and might, and who can withstand the power of thine army!
For as the small thing that the balance weighs, so is the world before thee, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falls down upon the earth.
But thou hast mercy upon all: for thou hast power of all things, and make as though thou saw not the sins of men, because they should amend.
For thou lovest all the things that are, and hate none of them whom thou hast made: for thou would have created nothing that thou had hated.
And how might any thing endure, if it were not thy will? or how cold any thing be preserved, except it were called of thee?
But thou sparest all: for they are thine, o Lord, which are the lover of souls.
Salomon 12
The mercy of God toward sinners. 14 The works of God are unreprovable. 19 God gives leisure to repent
FOR thine incorruptible spirit is in all things.
Therefore thou chastens them measurably that go wrong, and warned them by putting them in remembrance of the things wherein they have offended, that leaving wickedness they may believe in thee, o Lord.
As for those old inhabitants of the holy land, thou did hate them.
For they committed abominable works, as sorceries and wicked sacrifices,
And slaying of their own children without mercy, and eating of the bowls of man’s flesh in banketing [banquet]*, where the raging Priests shed abominable blood.
And the fathers were the chief murderers of the souls, destitute of all help, whom thou would destroy by the hands of our fathers,
That the land which thou lovest above all other, might be a meet dwelling for the children of God.
Nevertheless, thou sparest them also, as men, and sends the forerunners of thine host, even hornets to destroy them by little and little,
Not that thou were unable to subdue the ungodly unto the righteous in battle, or with cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them together.
But in punishing them by little and little, thou gavest them space to repent, knowing well, that it was an unrighteous nation and wicked of nature, and that their thoughts could never be altered.
For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: yet hast thou not spared them when they sinned, because thou feared any man.
For who dare say, What hast thou done? or who dare accuse thee for the nations that perish, whom thou hast made? or who dare stand against thee to revenge the wicked men?
For there is none other God but thou, that cares for all things, that you may declare how that thy judgement is not unright [unrighteous, wrong, wicked]*.
There dare neither King nor tyrants in thy sight require accounts of them whom thou hast punished.
For so much then as thou art righteous thyself, thou order all things righteously, thinking it not agreeable to thy power to condemn him, that hath not deserved to be punished.
For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because thou art Lord of all things, it causes thee to spare all things.
When men think thee not to be of a perfect power, thou declare thy power, and reprove the boldness of the wise.
But thou ruling the power, judges with equity, and government us with great favor: for thou may show thy power when thou wilt.
By such works now have thou taught thy people, that a man should be just and loving, and have made thy children to be of a good hope: for thou give repentance to sinners.
For if thou hast punished the enemies of thy children that had deserved death with so great consideration, and requesting unto them, giving them time and place that they might change from their wickedness,
With how great circumspection wilt thou punish thine own children, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn and made covenants of good promises?
So when thou do chasten us, thou punish our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that when we judge, we should diligently consider thy goodness, and when we are judged, we should hope for mercy.
Wherefore thou have tormented the wicked that have lived a dissolute life by their own imaginations.
For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and esteemed the beasts, which their enemies despised, for gods, being abused after the manner of children, that have none understanding.
Therefore have you set this punishment that they should be in derision as children without reason.
But they that will not be reformed by those scornful rebukes, shall feel the worthy punishment of God.
For in those things when they suffered, they disdained: but in these whom thou counted godly when they saw themselves punished by them, they all acknowledged the true God whom afore they had denied to know: therefore came extreme damnation upon them.
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