Great [1540], ¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the cont&ebar;t of al the holy scrypture both of þe; olde, and newe testam&ebar;t, with a prologe therinto, made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury, ¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches (Printed by Edward Whytchurche) [word count] [B06000].
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¶ The .xvii. Chapter.
¶ The iudgmentes of God vpon the Egypcyans.
A Greate are note thy iudgmentes (O
Lorde) and thy councels c&abar; not be
expressed: therfore m&ebar; do erre, that
will not be refourmed &wt; thy wysdome.
noteFor when þe; vnryghteous thought
to haue thy holy people &ibar; subiecci&obar;, they were
bounde with the bandes of darcknes and
longe nyght, shut vnder the rofe, thinkynge
to escape the euerlastynge wysdome. And
whyle they thought to be hyd &ibar; þe; darcknesse
of theyr synnes, they were scatered abrode &ibar;
the very myddest of th&ebar; darck couerynge
of forgetfulnes, put to horrible feare and
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wonderously vexed: for the corner where
they myght not kepe them from feare (because
the sounde came downe and vexed
them) yee, many terrible and straunge visions
made them afrayed.
B No power of the fyre myght geue them
lyght, nether myght the cleare flammes of
þe; starres lyghten þe; horrible nyght. For there
appeared vnto them a sodayne fyre, very
dredeful: At the which (when they sawe noth&ibar;ge)
they were so afrayed, þt; they thought
the thinge which they sawe, to be the more
fearfull. noteAs for þe; sorcery ∧ encha&ubar;tem&ebar;t
that they vsed, it came to derision, and the
proude wysdome was brought to shame.
For they that promised to dryue awaye the
fearfulnes and drede from the weake soules,
were syck for feare them selues, and that
with scorne. And though none of the wonders
feared th&ebar;, yet were they afrayed at the
beastes which came vpon them, ∧ at þe; Hyssynge
of the serp&ebar;tes. In so moch that with
tr&ebar;blinge they sowned, &abar;d sayde they sawe
not þe; ayre, which no man yet maye escape.
C For it is an heuy thynge, when a mans
awne conscience beareth recorde of his wyckednes
and condempneth hym. And why? a
vexed and wounded conscience, taketh euer
cruell thynges in h&abar;d. noteFearfulnes is nothing
els, but a declaring that a m&abar; seketh
helpe and defence, to answere for hym selfe.
And loke how moch lesse the hope is with&ibar;.
the more is the vncertentye of the mater, for
the which he is punyshed. But they that came
in the myghty nyght: slepte the slepe þt;
fell vpon them from vnder and from aboue:
somtyme were they afrayed thorow the feare
of the wonders, and sometyme they were
so weake that they sowned with all: for an
hastye ∧ sodayne fearfulnes came vp&obar; th&ebar;.
After warde, yf eny of them had fallen, he
was kepte and shut in preson, but without
chaynes. But yf eny dwelt in a vyllage, yf
he had bene an hearde or husb&abar;dman he suffred
intollerable necessite: for they were all
bounde with one chayne of darcknesse.
D Whether it were a blasynge wynde, or a
swete songe of the byrdes amonge the thycke
braunches of the trees, or the vehemencye
of hastye r&ubar;nynge water, or greate noyse
of the fallynge downe of stones, or the
playenge and runnynge of beastes whom
they sawe not, or the myghtye noyse of roarynge
beastes, or the sownde that answereth
agayne in the hye mountaynes: it made
them sowne for very feare. For all the
earth shyned with cleare lyght, and no man
was hyndered in his labour. Onely vpon
them there fell a heuy nyght, an ymage of
darcknesse that was to come vpon th&ebar;. Yee,
they vere vnto them selues the most heuy ∧
horrible darcknesse.
Great [1540], ¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the cont&ebar;t of al the holy scrypture both of þe; olde, and newe testam&ebar;t, with a prologe therinto, made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury, ¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches (Printed by Edward Whytchurche) [word count] [B06000].
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