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When the mentor of a man's common sense has forewarned him that he is being shadowed by an inevitable spectre, and when that spectre steps suddenly out into his path, he should not be astonished.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

Hence 'tis, that the Apostle has forewarned us, in 2 Tim.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

Cyprian has forewarned us that even antiquity is not authority, but may be only vetustas erroris—the old age of error.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)