that commandment, whereby the
infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by
a means which they hoped not for:

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Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their
adversaries.

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For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they
knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented,
thirsting in another manner than the just.

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For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the
other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

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Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.

Wis 11:12
For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the
remembrance of things past.

Wis 11:13
For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be
benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.

Wis 11:14
For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before
thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end,
when they saw what came to pass, they admired.

Wis 11:15
But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith
being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile
beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon
them for vengeance;

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That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the
same also shall he be punished.

Wis 11:17
For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without
form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears
or fierce lions,

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Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created,
breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of
scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their
eyes:

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Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but
also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.

Wis 11:20
Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one
blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad
through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all
things in measure and number and weight.

Wis 11:21
For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou
wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?

Wis 11:22
For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the
balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down
upon the earth.

Wis 11:23
But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things,
and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.

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For thou lovest all th