he fire, being warmed
with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:

Wis 16:28
That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give
thee thanks, and at the dayspring pray unto thee.

Wis 16:29
For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the
winter's hoar frost, and shall run away as unprofitable water.

Wis 17:1
For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed:
therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

Wis 17:2
For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation;
they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness,
and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay [there] exiled
from the eternal providence.

Wis 17:3
For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they
were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being
horribly astonished, and troubled with [strange] apparitions.

Wis 17:4
For neither might the corner that held them keep them from
fear: but noises [as of waters] falling down sounded about them,
and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.

Wis 17:5
No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the
bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible
night.

Wis 17:6
Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very
dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things
which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.

Wis 17:7
As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and
their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.

Wis 17:8
For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles
from a sick soul, were sick themselves of fear, worthy to be
laughed at.

Wis 17:9
For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being scared
with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,

Wis 17:10
They died for fear, denying that they saw the air, which
could of no side be avoided.

Wis 17:11
For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very
timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth
grievous things.

Wis 17:12
For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours
which reason offereth.

Wis 17:13
And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the
ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

Wis 17:14
But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed
intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of
inevitable hell,

Wis 17:15
Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly
f