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And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,
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That the land which of all is most dear to thee might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.
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Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.
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Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once:
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But executing thy judgments by degrees thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.