Haec ideo nostrae Historiae inserenda credidimus, ut admoneremus lectorem operum Domini, quam terribilis in consiliis super filios hominum; ne forte nos tempore aliquo carnis inlecebris servientes minusque Dei iudicium formidantes, repentina eius ira corripiat, et vel temporalibus damnis iuste saeviens affligat, vel ad perpetuam perditionem districtius examinans tollat.
These things have I thought good to be put in our History, to the end that we might give the reader warning of the works of the Lord, how terrible He is in His counsels over the children of men; that when perchance at any time we serve the allurements of the flesh and have little fear of the judgment of God, His sudden wrath take hold of us and either in His righteous fury crush us with temporal losses, or else trying us more hardly take us away to everlasting perdition.
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