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Attendite popule. Psal. 78.
HEare my Lawe, O my people: encline your eares vnto the words of my mouth.
I wil open my mouth in a parable: I wil declare hard sentences of olde.
Which we haue heard and knowen: and such as our fathers haue tolde vs.
That wee should not hide them from the children of the generations to come: but to shewe the honour of the Lorde, his mightie and wonderfull workes that hee hath done.
He made a couenant with Iacob, and gaue Israel a Law: which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children.
That their posteritie might knowe it: and the children which were yet vnborne.
To the intent that when they came vp: they might shewe their children the same.
That they might put their trust in God: and not to forget the workes of God, but to keepe his commandements.
And not to bee as their forefathers, a faithlesse and stub∣burne generation: a generation that set not their heart a∣right, and whose spirit cleaueth not stedfastly vnto God.
Like as the children of Ephraim: which being harnessed and carying bowes, turned themselues backe in the day of battaile.
They kept not the couenant of God: and would not walke in his Law.
But forgate what he had done: and the wonderfull worke that he had shewed for them.
Marueilous things did hee in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt: euen in the field of Zoan.
He dinided the sea, and let them goe through: he made the waters to stand on an heape.
In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night through with a light of fire.
Hee claue the hard rockes in the wildernesse: and gaue them drinke thereof, as it had bene out of the great depth.