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Excerpt from Gildas, the Ruin of Britain: Fragments From Lost Letters, the Penitential, Together With the Lorica of Gildas Church. The gold hath become dim, its best colour changed; which Lamnt iv. 1. Means the excellence of God's word. The sons of Zion, that is, of Lament. 1m. 5. The holy mother the Church, famous and clothed with best gold have to embraced ordure. What to him, a man of eminence, grew unbear able, has been so to me also, mean as I am, whenever it grew to be the height of grief, whilst he wailed over the same distinguished men living in prosperity so far as to say: her Nazarenes were Lament. Iv. 7. Whiter than snow, ruddier than old coral, fairer than sapphire. 15 These passages and many others I regarded as, in a way, a mirror of our life, in the Scriptures of the Old Testament, and then I turned to the Scriptures of the New; there I read things that pre viously had perhaps been dark to me, in clearer light, because the shadow passed away, and the truth shone more steadily. An I read, that is to say, of the Lord saying: I am not come but Matt. Xv, 24. Unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And on the other side Ma, mi, 13, But the sons of this Kingdom shall be cast into outer darknesses, there shall be weeping and gnash ing of teeth. A gain: It is not Matt. Xv. 96 good to take the children 's bread and cast it to the dogs. Also Ma 1 27' as Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. I heard Many Matt. Xxiii, r 5 shall come from east and west and recline with A braham, Isaac, Matt. Viii, r x. And jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, and on the other hand. Matt. Vu. 95= A nd then shall I say unto them. Depart from me ye workers of h iniquity. I read Blessed are the barren and the breasts that have Lute xxiii. 29 30 not given such and on the contrary Those who were ready, entered Matt. Xxv, 10 with him to the marriage feast, then came also the other virgins saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us to whom the answer was made, I know you not. I heard certainly He who believeth and is baptised, hfarh xvi, 16. Shall be saved, he, however, who believeth not shall be condemned. I read in the apostle's word that a branch of the wild olive had Rm xi. Tr. Been grafted into the good olive tree, but that it must be broken off from partaking in the root of fatness of the same, if it did not fear, but should be highminded. I knew the mercy of the Lord, Rom. 11, 6. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.