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13 For when God made promes to Abraham because he had none greater to sweare by he sware by him selfe,
14 sayinge: Surely I will blesse the, and multiplie the in dede.
15 And so after that he had taried paciently, he enioyed the promes.
16 For men verely sweare by hym that is greater then them selues, and an othe to confyrme the thynge, is to them an ende of all stryfe.
17 So God wyllinge very aboundantly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes, the stablenes of his counsayl, added an oth:
18 that by two immutable thynges (in whych it was vnpossible that God shulde lye) we myght haue a stronge consolacyon, which hitherto haue fled, for to holde fast the hope that is set before vs,