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for to geue vs.That we delyuered out of ye hade of or enemies, might serue him without feare

And thou childe shalt be called a prophet of the Hyest: for thou shalt go before ye LORDE, to prepare his wayes.

And to geue knowlege of saluacion vnto his people, for the remyssion of their synnes.

And she brought forth hir first begotte sonne, & wrapped him in swadlinge clothes, and layed him in a maunger: for they had els no rowme in the ynne.

for vnto you this daye is borne ye Sauioure, eue Christ ye LORDE, in the cite of Dauid.

And take this for a token: Ye shal fynde the babe swadled, and layed in a maunger.

And the shepherdes returned, praysinge and laudinge God, for all that they had herde and sene, euen as it was tolde them.

And beholde, there was a man (at Ierusale) whose name was Symeon, and the same ma was iust, and feared God, and loged for the consolacion of Israel, and the holy goost was in him.

And he came by inspiracion in to the teple.And whan the elders brought the childe Iesus in to the temple, to do for him after ye custome of the lawe,

For myne eyes haue sene thy Sauioure,

A light for the lightenynge of the Heythe, & for the prayse of yi people of Israel.

And Symeon blessed them, and sayde vnto Mary his mother: Beholde, this (childe) shalbe set to a fall, and to an vprysinge agayne of many in Israel, and for a token, which shalbe spoke agaynst.

the same came forth also the same houre, and praysed the LORDE, and spake of him vnto all that loked for the redempcion at Ierusalem.

And he came in to all ye coastes aboute Iordan, and preached the baptyme of repetaunce for the remyssion of synnes.

Take hede, brynge forth due frutes of repetauce, & begynne not to saye: We haue Abraha to or father. For I saye vnto you: God is able of these stones to rayse vp children vnto Abraham.

But Herode the Tetrarcha (wha he was rebuked of him because of Herodias his brothers wife, and for all the euels that Herode dyd)

And Iesus was aboute thirtie yeares whan he beganne. And he was taken for the sonne of Ioseph, which was the sonne of Eli,

& sayde vnto him: All this power wil I geue vnto the, and the glory therof, for it is geue ouer vnto me, and I geue it, to whom I wil.

For it is wrytte: He shal geue his angels charge ouer the, to kepe the,

And whan ye deuell had ended all the temptacions, he departed from him for a season.