I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past.
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TSK · Matthew 13:35
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Surely the Lord God wil do nothing, but he reuealeth his secrete vnto his seruauntes the prophetes.
All this was done, that it myght be fulfylled which was spoken by the prophete, saying:
Therfore it shalbe easyer for Tyre and Sidon at the iudgement, then for you.
Knowen vnto God are all his workes from the begynnyng of the worlde.
But we speake the wisedome of God in a misterie euen the hyd wisedome which God ordeyned before the worlde, vnto our glorie.
And to bring to lyght to all men what the felowship of the misterie is whiche from the begynnyng of the world hath ben hid in god, which made all thinges through Iesus Christe:
Who hath saued vs, & called vs with an holy callyng, not accordyng to our workes: but accordyng to his owne purpose and grace, which was geuen vs in Christe Iesus, before the world began:
God which in time past, at sundrie tymes, and in diuers maners, spake vnto the fathers in the prophetes:
Which was ordeyned beforehande, euen before the worlde was made, but was declared in the last tymes for your sakes:
The beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse pyt, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names are not written in the booke of lyfe from the begynnyng of the world) when they beholde the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.