how often the Almighty God has awfully wreaked
contempt of Himself upon guilty men,
or how often He has pitied mankind in some way,
those who with confession ceased from their evil.
We must not murmur, nor anxiously bemoan,
though mischance befall us respecting our possessions,
because murmuring is a very great danger,
that a man murmur against God, even as St. Paul has told us.
There will be many misfortunes at the end of this world,
but each one must patiently suffer his lot,
so that he sin not against God by murmuring,
and, for love of this world, merit for himself punishment.
This time is the last time, and the end of this world,
and men are made unjust amongst themselves,
so that the father contendeth with his own son,
and one brother with another, to their own destruction,
and thereby add iniquity to themselves,
both in this world and in that which is to come.
For it seemeth to the wicked, as if they might live for ever,
and they know not the saying, which God saith of such,
Viri sanguinum et dolosi non dimidiahunt dies suos; that is in English,
'The bloody men and those who choose deceit,
they shall not live out half their days' [Ps. lv. 23 ].
They are bloody men who commit manslaughters,
and those who seduce men's souls to destruction.
Such shall end by a very evil death,
if they do not amend their evil before the end.
