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Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes:
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That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.
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For thy almighty hand, which made the world of matter without form, was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
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Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes:
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Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear.
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Yea and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.