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For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
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And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
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Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,
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Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
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And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times.
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For yet greater evils than those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter.
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For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
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For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
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Then answered I before thee, and said,
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Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
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For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin.