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Is his mercy cleane gone? Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore?

Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure?

That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come: but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE, his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done.

That they also might put their trust in God, & not to forget what he had done, but to kepe his comaundementes.

They kepte not the couenaut of God, & wolde not walke in his lawe.

Lo, he smote the stony rocke, that the watery streames gusshed out, and the streames flowed withall: but how can he geue bred and prouyde flesh for his people?

Because they beleued not in God, and put not their trust in his helpe.

He caused the east wynde to blowe vnder the heauen, and thorow his power he brought in the south wynde.

But for all this they synned yet more, and beleued not his woderous workes.

For their herte was not whole with him, nether continued they in his couenaunt.

Yee many a tyme turned he his wrath awaye, and wolde not suffre his whole displeasure to aryse.

They thought not of his hade, in ye daye when he delyuered them from the hande of ye enemie.

How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte, and his woders in the londe of Zoan.

How he sent vpon them ye furiousnesse of his wrath, anger & displeasure: with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels.

When he made a waye to his fearfull indignacio, and spared not their soules from death, yee and gaue their catell ouer to the pestilence.

But as for his owne people, he led them forth like shepe, and caried them in the wyldernesse like a flocke.

He caried them vnto the borders of his Sanctuary: euen in to this hill, which he purchased with his right hande.

For all this they tempted and displeased the most hye God, and kepte not his couenaunt.

So that he forsoke the tabernacle in Silo, euen his habitacion wherin he dwelt amonge men.

He gaue his people ouer in to the swerde, for he was wroth with his heretage.