Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse

The Jews, Gods chosen people, they were also bereft of knowledge: there was no prophet left among them, nor any to teach them the will of the Lord. The law did perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancient: light was turned into darkness, and judgement into wormwood: they were bitter and grievous to the poor: they slew the Prophets which were sent unto them, they did for sake the fountain of living waters, and followed Baal and Astaroth. Like people, like Priests: from the sole of the ¹foot, unto y• head there was nothing whole in them. Of them God spake by the Prophet, I ²have no pleasure in you, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. Of them he said, ³When you shall stretch out your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: and though you make many prayers, I will not hear you, In such a darkness lay the Jews, in such a darkness lay the Gentiles. All had sinned, ⟨image 112⟩they were all corrupt and abominable in their ways, they were the Children of wrath, and the vessels of destruction. So were they wrapped in the cloud of ignorance, and covered in the shadow of death. Such was the night Saint Paul spake of, so ugly, so dark, so void of comfort.

The Iewes, Gods chosen people, they were also bereft of knowledge: there was no prophet left among them, nor any to teache them the wil of the Lord. The lawe did perish from the priest, and counsel from the auncient: light was turned into darknesse, and iudgement into wormewood: they were bitter and grieuous to the poore: they slew the Prophets which were sent vnto them, they did for sake the fountaine of liuing waters, and followed Baal and Astaroth. Like people, like Priestes: frō the sole of the ¹foot, vnto y• head there was nothing whole in them. Of them God spake by the Prophet, I ²