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HE beginning of the Ghospel of the Sonne of God. As it is written in Esay the Prophet: (Behold I send mine Angel before thy face, who shal prepare thy way before thee.) A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of our Lord, make straight his pathes. * John was in the desert baptizing, and preaching the Baptisme of pennance unto remission of sinnes. And there went forth to him al the countrie of Jewrie, and al they of Hierusalem, and were baptized of him in the river of Jordan, ″ confessing ″ their sinnes. And John was ″ clothed with camels haire, and a girdle of a skinne about his loines: and he did eate locustes and wild honie. And he preached, saying: There commeth a stronger then I after me: whose latchet of his shoes I am not worthie stouping downe to loose. I have baptized you ″ with water; but he shal baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

And it came to passe, in those daies came from Nazareth of Galilee; and was ″ baptized of John in Jordan. And forthwith comming up out of the water, he saw the Heavens opened, and ″ the Spirit as a dove descending, and remaining on him. And a voice was made Rh