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For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear: but noises as of waters falling down sounded about them, and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.
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No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible night.
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Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.
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As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.
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For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of fear, worthy to be laughed at.
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For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being scared with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,
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They died for fear, denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.
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For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.
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For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.
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And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.
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But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,