chapter lvi

. 10, 11.)

Little better were those of whom the prophets that followed have left us so dreadful an account; _Both prophet and priest are prophane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. And from the prophets of_ Jerusalem, _is prophaneness gone forth into all the land_, (Jeremiah xxiii. 11, 15.) _Her priests have violated my law, and have prophaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the prophane, and I am prophaned among them_, (Ezekiel xxii. 26.) _If I be a Father, where is mine honour; and if I be a master, where is my fear? Saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name_, (Malachi i. 6.)

Yea some of them were fallen into the grossest sins. _The company of priests, saith_ Hosea, _commit lewdness: There is whoredom in_ Ephraim, Israel _is despised_, ( chapter vi . 9, 10.) _I have seen also in the prophets of_ Jerusalem (saith God by _Jeremiah_) _an horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in lies_, (