The Blessings of Divine Discipline

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Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

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For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

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He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

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In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.

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But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.

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For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.

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Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

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Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.

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Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.