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The. 20. Sunday after Trinitie, at Euening prayer.
Micheas. 6.[ A] HEarken ye nowe what the Lorde sayth, Aryse thou, and contende with the mountaynes, and let the hilles heare thy voyce. 2 Heare O ye mountaynes the Lordes quarrell, and ye mightie foundations of the earth: for the Lorde hath a quarrell agaynst his people, and will pleade with Israell. 3 O my people what haue I done vnto thée? or wherein haue I grieued thée? giue me answere.
4 I haue brought thée out of the lande of Egypt, and de∣liuered thée out of the house of bondage, and I made Moises, Aaron,* 1.1 and Miriam to lead thée. 5 Remember O my peo∣ple, what Balach the king of Moab had deuised against thée, and what answere that Balaam the sonne of Beor gaue him, from Sethin vnto Galgal, that ye may knowe the righ∣teousnesse [ B] of the Lorde. 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lorde, and bowe my selfe to the hie God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calues of a yeare olde? 7 Hath the Lord a pleasure in many thousandes of rammes, or innumerable streames of oyle? shall I giue my first borne for mine offences, and the fruite of my bodie for the sinne of my soule. 8 He hath shewed thée O man what is good, and what the Lorde requireth of thée: (namely) to do iustly, to loue mercie, and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God. 9 The Lordes voyce cryeth vnto the citie, and the man that shall be saued considereth thy name: hearken what is your rod, and heare him that warneth you.
10 Are not yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abhominable?
11 Shoulde I iustifie the false balances, and the bagge of