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Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whom the former Prophets haue cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hostes, Turne ye now from your euill wayes, and from your euil doings: but they did not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the LORD.

1611 marginal noteIsa.31.6. iere.3.12. and 18.11. eze.18.30. hose.14.1.

Heare now, O Ioshua the high Priest, thou and thy fellowes that sit before thee: for they are men wondred at: for behold, I will bring foorth my seruant the Branch.

1611 marginal noteHeb. men of wonder.

1611 marginal noteIsai 11.1. iere.23.5. and 33.15. chap. 6.12. luke 1.78.

Should yee not heare the wordes, which the LORD hath cried by the former Prophets, when Ierusalem was inhabited, and in prosperitie, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the South of the plaine?

1611 marginal noteOr, are not these the wordes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. by the hand of, &c.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their eares, that they should not heare.

1611 marginal noteHebr. they gaue a backsliding shoulder.

1611 marginal noteHebr. made heauie.

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should heare the Law, and the wordes which the LORD of hostes hath sent in his spirit by the former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hostes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. by the hand of &c.

Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, saith the LORD of hostes.

1611 marginal notePro.1.28. isa.1.15. iere.11.11. and 14.2.

¶ Thus saith the LORD of hostes, Let your handes be strong, ye that heare in these dayes, these wordes by the mouth of the Prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laied, that the Temple might be built.

And I will strengthen the house of Iudah, and I will saue the house of Ioseph, and I will bring them againe to place them, for I haue mercie vpon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, & will heare them.

And I will bring the thirde part through the fire, and wil refine them as siluer is refined, & will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my Name, and I wil heare them: I wil say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

1611 marginal note1.Pet.1.6, 7.