A06815:0
[The governance of virtue][The gouernans of vertue]
London : s.n., 1549?
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
learn to do well. Seek judgement help the poor oppressed be favourable to the fatherless, defend the widow, and than come & reprove me, saith the Lord. If your since be as read as scarlet, yet shall they be made as whit as snow, & if they be like purple, yet shall they be made like white wool. If that ye will be contented & hear me, ye shall eat• the good fruits of the earth. If that ye will not but provoke me unto anger, the sword shall devourey•u, for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it
learne to do well. Seke iudgement healpe the poore oppressed be fauourable to the fatherles, defende the wydowe, and than come & reproue me, sayth the Lord. If your synnes be as redde as scarlet, yet shall they be made as whyt as snow, & if they be lyke purple, yet shal they be made lyke whyte wolle. Yf that ye wyll be contented & heare me, ye shal eat• the good frutes of ye earth. Yf yt ye wyl not but ꝓuoke me vnto angre, the swerde shal deuourey•u, for the mouth of the lorde hath spoken it
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