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CHAP. V.
1. YOu that call your selves Priests in Is∣rael, and passe under that name among your Countriemen, I have somewhat more for you to hear. And it will concern all you of the house of Israel, to listen to it: and you speci∣ally of King Menahem's Court. For there is a (i) 1.1 just punishment readie to fall upon you, because you have been a snare to the house of Iudah, who, by your example, have been as easilie seduced, as birds are taken in nets, and gins, about the woody Mountains of Mizpah, and Tabor: which are famous for that art of fowling, and ensnaring of those crea∣tures.
2. And no wonder, if others were misled by their example: for, these (k) 1.2 Apostates decli∣ning from the true wayes of my service, (l) 1.3 went profoundlie to work in their butchering (for no better term deserve their so much sa∣crificing to idols.) But I will (m) 1.4 find a way of