The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the…

We come now to the Testimony it self, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, &c. which doth contain the effect of Johns Ministry, as also the duty of his hearers, who were fallen into a corrupt time, when the Philistines had filled up all the Wells the Pharisees & Scribes had corrupted the Word of God by false interpretations: The word [Greek or Hebrew], he will prepare, and [Greek or Hebrew], prepare ye, are taken from the custom of great Ones, who use to have way made for them; or as others, when great Commanders were to lead an Army, they sent some before, who were called [Greek or Hebrew], that did complanate and make level the way; and the Hebrew Word is emphatical, ¹which signifieth such a removal of all offensive things, that the ⟨p. 19⟩face may no longer behold them: and thence we observe that,

Wee come now to the Testimony it selfe, Prepare yee the way of the Lord, &c. which doth containe the effect of Iohns Ministery, as also the duty of his hearers, who were fallen into a corrupt time, when the Philistims had filled up all the Wels the Pharisees & Scribes had corrupted the Word of God by false interpretations: The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he wil prepare, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, prepare yee, are taken from the custome of great Ones, who use to have way made for them; or as others, when great Commanders were to lead an Army, they sent some before, who were called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that did complanate and make levell the way; and the Hebrew Word is emphaticall, ¹which signifieth such a removall of all offensive things, that the ⟨p. 19⟩face may no longer behold them: and thence wee observe that,

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