The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the GreekThe Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke

¶ On the friday next following. The Epistle.

¶ On the frydaye next folowynge. The Epistle.

Cry with the throat and spare not. Lift¹ up thy voice as a trumpet / and tell my people their offences and the house of Jacob their since. For me they seek day by day / and will know my ways / as a people that doth righteousness / and hath not forsaken the equity of their God. They seek of me righteous judgements / and will draw nigh unto God. Why have we fasted and thou hast not looked upon it / have humbled our souls / & thou wouldest not wit it. Behold when ye fast / ye can find your own lusts / and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist ⟨p. ccclxxxix⟩wickedly. Fast not as ye now do / to make your voice to be hard up an hie. Should it be such a manner of fast that I should chose / a day that a man should hurt his soul in? Or to bow down his heed like a bulrush? Or to spread sack cloth and ashes under him? Shouldest thou call this a fast / and a day acceptable unto the lord? Or is not this rather y• fast y• I have chosen? To lose wicked bonds & to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes? yea and to break the breed to the hungry / & to bring the poor that are harbourless unto house / & when thou seest a naked / that thou cloth him and y• thou shouldest with draw thy self from helping thine own flesh: Then should y• light break out as doth y• day spring / & then health should shortly bud out. And thy righteousness shall go before thee / and the glory of the lord would come upon thee. Then shouldest thou call / & the lord should answer: then shouldest thou cry / and he shall say / lo here am I. For I the lord thy God am merciful