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THAT eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of the things which
I say unto Thee? Or seest Thou at the time that which cometh to
pass in time? Why, therefore, do I place before Thee so many
relations of things? Not surely that Thou mightest know them through
me, but that I may awaken my own love and that of my readers towards
Thee, that we may all say, "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be
praised." t I have already said, and shall say, for the love of
Thy love do I this. For we also pray, and yet Truth says, "Your
Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him..
Therefore do we make known unto Thee our love, in confessing unto
Thee our own miseries and Thy mercies upon us, that Thou mayest free
us altogether, since Thou hast begun, that we may cease to be
wretched in ourselves, and that we may be blessed in Thee; since
Thou hast called us, that we may be poor in spirit, and meek, and
mourners, and hungering and athirst after righteousness, and
merciful, and pure in heart, and peacemakers? Behold, I have told
unto Thee many things, which I could and which I would, for Thou
first wouldest that I should confess unto Thee, the Lord my God,
for Thou art good, since Thy "mercy endureth for ever."
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