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CHAP. I. Isaie prophecying in the dayes of foure kinges of Iuda, 2. admonisheth both princes and people of their ingratitude, and other sinnes against God. 7. for which they shal be led captiue. 11. Neither shal sacrifices, nor prayers saue them, 16. except they cleanse their soules from sinnes. 20. which they not doing shal be seuerely punished. 26. Wherby the reliques shal be pur∣ged, and the Church shal flourish.

THE vision of Isaie the sonne of :: Amos, which he sawe [ 1] concerning Iuda and Ierusalem in the dayes of Ozias, Ioathan, Achaz, and Ezechias kinges of Iuda. † Heare ye [ 2] heauens, & geue eare ô earth, because our Lord hath spoken. I haue brought vp children, and exalted them: but they haue despised me. † The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the [ 3] asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen me, and my people hath not vnderstood. † Woe to the sinful nation, the [ 4] people loden with greeuous iniquitie, the wicked seede, vn∣gracious children: they haue forsaken our Lord, they haue blasphemed the holie one of Israel, they are reuolted backe∣wards. † For what shal I strike you anie more, which adde [ 5] preuarication? :: euerie head is sicke, & euerie hart in heauines. † From the sole of the foote vnto the toppe of the head, there [ 6] is no health therein: wound, and wayle, and swelling stroke: it is not bound vp, nor cured with medicine, nor mollified with oile. † Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with [ 7] fire: your countrie strangers deuoure before your face, and it shal be made desolate as in the spoile of enemies. † And :: the [ 8] daughter of Sion shal be left as a vineyard, and as a cottage in a place of cucumbers, and as a citie that is wasted. † :: Vnlesse [ 9] the Lord of hostes had lefte vs seed, we had beene as Sodom, and we should be like to Gomorrha. † Heare the word of our [ 10] Lord ye princes of Sodom, geue eare to the law of our God ye people of Gomorrha. † To what purpose do you offer me [ 11] the multitude of your victimes, saith our Lord? I am ful▪ the holocaust oframmes, and the fatte of fatlings, and the bloud of calues, and lambes, and buck goates I haue not desired. † When you should haue come before my sight, who sought [ 12]

for these thinges at your handes, that you should walke in my courtes? † Offer sacrifice no more in vaine: incense is abo∣mination [ 13] to me. The Newe moone, and the Sabbath, and other sestiuities I wil not abide, your assemblies are wicked. † My soule hateth your Calendes, and your solemnities: they [ 14] are become tedious to me, I haue laboured in susteyning. † And when you shal streach forth your hands, I wil turne [ 15] away mine eies from you: & when you shal multiplie prayer, I wil not heare: for your handes are ful of bloud▪ † Wash [ 16] you, be cleane, take away the euil of your cogitations from mine eies: cease to doe peruersely. † Lerne to doe good: [ 17] seeke iudgement, succour the oppressed, iudge for the pupil, defend the widow. † And come, and accuse me, sayth our [ 18] Lord: if your sinnes shal be as scarlet, they shal be made white as snow: and if they be red as vermelon, they shal be white as wooll. † If you be willing, and wil heare me, you [ 19] shal eate the good thinges of the earth. † But if you wil not, [ 20] and wil prouoke me to wrath: the sword shal deuoure you, because the mouth of our Lord hath spoken. † How is [ 21] the faythful citie, ful of iudgement, :: become an harlot? iustice hath dwelled in it, but now mankillers. † Thy siluer is [ 22] turned into drosse: thy wine is mingled with water. † Thy [ 23] princes are vnfaithful, companions of theues: al loue giftes, folow rewardes. They iudge not for the pupil: and the wi∣dowes cause goeth not in to them. † For this cause sayth our [ 24] Lord the God of hostes the mightie one of Israel: Alas, I wil comfort myselfe vpon mine aduersaries: and wil be reuenged of mine enemies. † And I wil turne mine hand to thee, and [ 25] I wil boyle out thy drosse til it be pure, & wil take away al thy tinne. † And I wil restore :: thy iudges as they haue beene [ 26] before, and thy counselers as of old. After these thinges thou shalt be called the iust, a faithful citie. † Sion shal be redemed [ 27] in iudgement, and they shal bring her backe in iustice. † And [ 28] he shal destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that haue forsaken our Lord, shal be consumed. † For they shal [ 29] be confounded for the idols, to which they haue sacrificed: and you shal be ashamed of the gardens, which you chose. † When you shal be as an oke the leaues falling of, and as a [ 30] garden without water. † And your strength shal be, as the [ 31] isles of to we, and your worke as a sparke: and both shal be set on fire together, and there shal be none to quench it.

Notes

• The first part. The kingdom of Iuda shal be captiue in Babylon, for their ingrati∣tude towards Gods, and other sinnes.
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  Not A••••s the third of the lesse pro∣phetes, for this name is written in other letters in Hebrew: but one of the royal bloud as S. Ierom. testi∣fieth.
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  Prince, Priest, and people are al sicke of ingra∣titude against God & other iniquities.
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  Ierusalem defaced and destroyed.
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  God conti∣nually preser∣ueth some holie seede, that his Church neuer faileth.
• Rom. 9.
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  Much wic∣kednes rei∣gned in Ieru∣salem before their captiui∣tie in Baby∣lon: but much more at Christs pas∣sion, when they persecu∣ted him euen to the Crosse: and his disci∣ples, and al christians, til their citie was taken by the Romanes and the whole nation disper∣sed.
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  The Rab∣bins vnder∣stand those Iudges and Priestes that gouerned the people after their deliuerie from captiui∣tie: but S. Ierom ex∣poundeth this and the like places of the Apostles, and their succes∣s••••s.