A   Samuel sayd vnto all Israel: beholde, I haue herkened vnto your voyce in all that ye sayde vnto me, ∧ haue made you a kynge. Nowe therfore, youre kynge walketh before you. And I am olde and graye headed: and behold, my sonnes are with you, and I haue walked before you fr&obar; my childehode vnto thys daye. Beholde, here I am: beare recorde of me before the Lorde and before hys anoynted: ^note Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose Asse haue I tak&ebar;? wh&obar; haue I done wr&obar;g to? &club; Whom haue I hurt? Or of whose hande haue I receaued any brybe, to blynde myne eyes therwyth? ∧ I wyll restore it you agayne. They sayde: thou hast done vs no wr&obar;ge, nor hurt vs, nether hast thou tak&ebar; ought of any mannes hande. He sayde vnto them agayne: the Lord is witnesse agaynst you, ∧ hys anoynted is wytnesse thys daye, þt; ye haue founde naught in my h&abar;des. And they answered: he is wytnesse. B   And Samuel sayd vnto the people: it is &club; the Lorde, þt; made Moses ∧ Aar&obar;, ∧ þt; brought youre fathers out of the l&abar;de of Egypte. Nowe therfore st&abar;de still, þt; I maye reason &wt; you before the Lorde, accordyng to all the &rhand; ryghtousnesses of the Lord, which he shewed both you and youre fathers.

^noteAfter þt; Iacob was come into Egypte, and youre fathers cryed vnto the Lorde ^note the Lorde sent Moses ∧ Aaron, which brought your fathers out of Egipt, ∧ made th&ebar; dwell in this place. ^noteAnd wh&abar; they forgat the lord their God, he delyuered th&ebar; into the hand of Sisara captaine of the hoost of Hazor ^note and into the hande of the Philistynes, and ^note into the hande of the kynge of Moab, and they fought agaynst them. And they cryed vnto the Lorde, ∧ sayde: we haue synned, because we haue forsaken the Lorde, and haue serued Baalim and Astharoth. Nowe therfore delyuer vs out of the handes of oure enemyes and we wyll serue the. C   And the Lorde sent &rhand; Ierobaal ^note Badan ^note Iephthah, ∧ ^note Samuel, and delyuered you out of the handes of youre enemyes on euery syde, and ye dwelled safe. And for all that, wh&ebar; you sawe that Nahas the kyng of the chyldren of Ammon cam agaynst you, ye sayde vnto me: ^note not so but a kyng shall raigne ouer vs, wh&ebar; yet the Lorde youre God was youre kynge. Nowe therfore, beholde, the kinge wh&obar; ye haue chosen, and whom ye haue desyred: lo, the Lord hath set a kynge ouer you. Yf ye wyll feare the Lorde ∧ serue hym, and heare hys voyce, ∧ not disobeye the worde of the Lorde: both ye ∧ the kynge that raygneth ouer you, shall folowe the Lorde youre God: Yf ye wyll not herken vnto the voyce of the Lord, but disobeye the Lordes mouth: then shall the hande of the Lorde be vpon you and on youre fathers. Nowe also stande, and se thys great thynge, whych the Lord will do before your eyes: is it not now wheatheruest? D   I will call vnto the Lorde, and &rhand; he shall sende thunder and rayne: that ye maye perceaue and se, howe that youre wickednes is great, which ye haue done in the syght of the Lorde, in askynge you a kynge. And so, Samuel called vnto the Lorde, and the Lorde sent thunder and rayne the same daye. And all the people feared the Lorde and Samuel exceadyngly. And all the people sayde vnto Samuel: praye for thy seruauntes vnto the Lord thy God, that we dye not: for we haue synned in askynge vs a kynge, besyde all the synnes þt; euer we dyd.

And Samuel sayde vnto the people: feare not. Ye haue in dede done all thys wyckednesse, yet departe not from folowynge of the Lorde. But serue hym euen wyth all youre hertes. Nether turne ye after vayne thinges whych are not able to profyt you, for they are but vanitye. For the ^note Lorde wyll not forsake hys people, because of hys great names sake: because &club; it hath pleased the Lord, to make you his people. Moreouer God forbydde, that I shulde synne agaynst the Lorde, and ceasse prayeng for you, but to shewe you the good ∧ ryght waye. Therfore feare you the Lorde, and serue hym in the trueth, and wyth all youre hertes ∧ consydre howe great thinges he hath done for you. But and yf ye do wyckedlye, then shall ye peryshe, both ye and youre kynge.

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