A    ^noteIn the same yeare þt; kynge Osias dyed, I sawe the LORDE sittinge vpon an high and glorious seate, and his trayne fylled þe; palace. From aboue flakred the Seraphins, wherof euery one had sex wynges. With twayne ech couered his face, &wt; twayne his fete, and with twayne dyd he flye. They cried also ech one to other on this maner: holy, holy, holy is the LORDE of hoostes. ^noteThe whole worlde is ful of his glory. B   Yee the geastes and dorechekes moued at their crienge, and the house was ful of smoke. Then I sayde: O wo is me. For I was astonished: that I (which am a man of vnclene lippes, and dwell amonge people þt; hath vnclene lippes also:) Shulde se þe; Kynge and LORDE of hoostes with myne eyes.

Then flewe one of the Seraphins vnto me, hauinge a hote cole in his honde, which he had taken from the aulter with the tonges, and touched my mouth, and sayde: lo, this hath touched thy mouth, ∧ thy vnrightouousnes is taken a waye, and thy synne forgeuen. After this I herde the voyce of the LORDE takinge advysement on this maner: Whom shall I sende, and who wilbe oure messaunger? Th&ebar; I sayde: here am I, sende me. And so he sayde: go, and tel this people: ye shall heare in dede, but ye shal not vnderstonde, ye shal planely se, and not perceaue. ^noteHarden the harte of this people, stoppe their eares, and shut their eyes, that they se not &wt; their eyes, heare not with their eares, and vnderstonde not with their hartes, and conuerte and be healed.

D   Then spake I: LORDE, how longe? he answered:

vntil the cities be vtterly without inhabitours, and þe; houses without men, till the l&obar;de be also desolate, and lye vnbuylded. For the LORDE shal take the men farre awaye, so that the londe shall lye waist Neuertheles, the tenth parte shal remayne therin, for it shal conuerte and be fruteful. And likewise as the Terebyntes and Oketrees bringe forth their frutes, so shal the holy sede haue frute. ^note

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