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AN EXPOSITION UPON THE WHOLE Booke of the Prophesie of Malachy, delivered in certaine Sermons.
CHAP. I.
THE burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the ministery of Ma∣lachy.
- 2 I have loved you, sayth the Lord: yet yee say. Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacobs brother, saith the Lord? yet I loved Jacob,
- 3 And I hated Esau, and made his mountaines waste, and his heritage a wildernesse for dragons.
- 4 Though Edom say, We are impoverished, but we will returne and build the desolate places; yet saith the Lord of Hostes, They shall build, but I will destroy it, and they shall call them, The border of wickednesse, and the people, with whom the Lord is an∣gry for ever.
- 5 And your eyes shall see it, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified upon the border of Israel.
- 6 A sonne honoureth his father, and a servant his master. If then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my feare, saith the Lord of Hostes unto you, O Priests that despise my Name? and ye say, Wherein have we despised thy Name?
- 7 Ye offer uncleane bread upon mine Altar, and you say, wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The Table of the Lord is not to be regarded.
- 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is not evill: and if ye offer the lame and sick, it is not evill: offer it now unto thy Prince; will he be content with thee, or accept thy person, saith the Lord of Hostes?
- 9 And now, I pray you, pray before God, that he may have mercy upon us: this hath beene by your meanes: will he reward your persons, saith the Lord of Hostes?
- 10 Who is there even among you, that would shut the doores, and kindle not fire on mine Altar in vaine? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hostes, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
- 11 For from the rising of the Sunne unto the going downe of the same, my Name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my Name, and a pure offering: for my Name is great among the Heathen, saith the Lord of Hostes.
- 12 But ye have polluted it, in that ye say, The Table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meate is not to be regarded.
- 13 Ye said also, Behold, it is a wearinesse, and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of Hostes, and ye offered that which was torne, and the lame, and the sick: thus ye offer∣ed an offering: should I accept this at your hand, saith the Lord?
- 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacri∣ficeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am agreat King, saith the Lord of Hostes, and my Name is terrible among the Heathen.