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Then the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.
Had so far forth obtained the favour that we shew toward every nation, as that he was called our father, and was continually honoured of all the next person unto the king.
He was made to reprove our thoughts.
He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated.
Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.
I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,
And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the elements:
I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.
For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.
Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I said,
And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandments.
She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.
When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,
Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;
They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,
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:
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.
For he provided for it that it might not fall, knowing that it was unable to help itself; for it is an image, and hath need of help:
But that which is made with hands is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he, because he made it; and it, because, being corruptible, it was called god.
For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life.
Thus in process of time an ungodly custom grown strong was kept as a law, and graven images were worshipped by the commandments of kings.
Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.
And so the multitude, allured by the grace of the work, took him now for a god, which a little before was but honoured.
And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name.
Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of God; but whereas they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.
And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.
For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaister, that restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.
For sometime the flame was mitigated, that it might not burn up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves might see and perceive that they were persecuted with the judgment of God.
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:
For that which was not destroyed of the fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:
As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.
But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,
So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,
For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.
Over them only was spread an heavy night, an image of that darkness which should afterward receive them: but yet were they unto themselves more grievous than the darkness.
For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world.
So of thy people was accepted both the salvation of the righteous, and destruction of the enemies.
But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.
So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.
For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,
For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to defend them; and bringing the shield of his proper ministry, even prayer, and the propitiation of incense, set himself against the wrath, and so brought the calamity to an end, declaring that he was thy servant.
Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.
To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and it was created with the faithful in the womb.
Remember that thou wast begotten of them; and how canst thou recompense them the things that they have done for thee?
Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.
Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.
He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.
In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.
Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.
In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.
There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse than death.
Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them.
While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died, he was not sorrowful.
Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was present.
And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth:
I was ofttimes in danger of death: yet I was delivered because of these things.
He that washeth himself after the touching of a dead body, if he touch it again, what availeth his washing?
Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?
The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:
Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon these things, and have left them in writing.
When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear was nothing.
Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, being an example of repentance to all generations.
An everlasting covenant was made with him, that all flesh should perish no more by the flood.
Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like unto him;
Who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him: he established the covenant in his flesh; and when he was proved, he was found faithful.