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2 as it is written in the Prophetes, behold, I sende my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy waye before the.
3 The voyce of a cryer in the wildernes: prepare ye the waye of the Lorde, & make his pathes strayte.
4 Iohn dyd baptyse in the wyldernes, and preached the baptyme of repentaunce, for the remissyon of synnes.
5 And all the lande of Iewrie and they of Ierusalem, went out vnto hym, and were all baptised of him in the ryuer Iordan, confessynge their synnes.
6 Iohn was clothed with camilles herr, and wt a gerdyll of a sayng about hys loynes. And he dyd eate locustes and wilde hony,
7 and preached sayinge. He that is stronger then I, commeth after me, whose sho latchet I am not worthy to stoupe downe, and vnlose,
8 I haue baptysed you wyth water: but he shall baptyse you with the holy gost.