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CHAP. XIII.
1 All things be vaine, except the knowledge of God. 10 Idolaters
and idoles are mocked.
1 Svrely all men are vaine by nature, and are ignorant
of God, note and could not knowe him that is,
by the good things that are seene, neither consider
by the workes, the worke master.
2 noteBut they thought the fire, or the winde or
the swift aire, or the course of the starres, or the raging
water, or the lightes of heauen to be gouernours
of the world, and gods.
3 Though they had such pleasure in their beautie
that they thought them gods, yet shoulde they
haue knowen, howe much more excellent he is that
made them: for the first authour of beautie hath
created these things.
4 Or if they marueiled at the power, and operation
of th&ebar;, yet should they haue perceiued thereby,
howe much he þt; made these things, is mightier.
5 For by the greatnesse of their beautie, and of
the creatures, the Creator being compared &wt; them,
may be considered.
6 But yet þe; blame is lesse in these, þt; seeke God
and would finde him, & yet peraduenture doe erre.
7 For note they goe about by his workes to seeke
him, and are perswaded by the sight, because the
things are beautifull that are seene.
8 Howbeit they are not to be excused.
9 For if they can know so much, that they can
discerne the worlde, why doe they not rather finde
out the Lord thereof?
10 But miserable are they, and among the dead
is their hope, that call them gods, which are the
workes of mens hands, golde, and siluer, & the thing
that is inuented by arte, & the similitude of beastes,
or any vaine stone that hath bene made by the
hand of antiquitie.
11 noteOr as when a carpenter cutteth downe a
tree meete for the worke, and pareth off all þe; barke
thereof cunningly, & by arte maketh a vessell profitable
for the vse of life.
12 And the things þt; are cut off from his worke,
he bestoweth to dresse his meate to fill himselfe,
13 And that which is left of these things, which
is profitable for nothing (for it is a crooked piece of
wood and full of knobbes) he carueth it diligently
at his leasure, and according as he is expert in cunning,
he giueth it a proportion, and facioneth it after
the similitude of a man,
14 Or maketh it like some vile beast, and straketh
it ouer with red, and painteth it, and couereth
euery spotte that is in it.
15 And when he hath made a conuenient tabernacle
for it, he setteth it in a wall, and maketh it
fast with yron,
16 Prouiding so for it, least it fall: for he knoweth
þt; it cannot helpe it selfe, because it is an image,
which hath neede of helpe.
17 Then he prayeth for his goodes, and for his
mariage & for children: he is not ashamed to speake
vnto it, that hath no life.
18 He calleth on him that is weake for health:
he prayeth vnto him that is dead for life: he requireth
him of helpe that hath no experience at all.
19 And for his iourney, him that is not able to
goe, and for gaine, and worke, and successe of his affaires
he requireth furtherance of him, that hath no
maner of power.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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