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And this haue ye done againe, and couered the altar of the Lord with teares, with weeping, and with mourning: because the offring is no more regarded, neither receiued acceptablie at your hands.
* 1.1HE increaseth their disobedience, for that they continued in this wickednesse, when as notwithstanding they themselues had now twise openly in the Temple acknowledged this their lewdnes and sinne, and confessed that themselues and their sacrifices were
not accepted or regard of God. The first acknowledgement of this sinne is extant or to be seene, Esdr. cap. 10. The second, Nehem. cap. 10. ver. 30. where among other poynts of the couenant, that they sealed vnto, this was one, That they would not giue their daughters to the people of the land, neither take their daughters for their sonnes. And cap. 13. ver. 25. where Nehemias taketh an oth of them for the performance hereof. Out of this place appeareth, as I haue sayd, at what time this Prophet prophesied, to wit, in the last age of Ne∣hemias.
Their continu∣ance in this sin.