A03622:101
A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of almighty God written Exo. 20. Deu.…A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of allmygthye God wroten Exo. 20. Deu.…
A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of almighty God written Exo. 20. Deu. 5. Collected out of the scripture canonical, by Joanne Hopper.A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of allmygthye God wroten Exo. 20. Deu. 5. Collectyd out of the scripture canonicall, by Joanne Hopper.
Zurich: printed by Augustin Fries, 1549
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The second part for biddeth to honour any image made.
The second part for byddithe to honor ony ymayge made.
The first word honour / signifieth: to bow head leg / knee / or any part of the body / unto them / as all those do / that say they may with good conscience / be suffered in the church of Christ. To serve them / is to do some what for there sakes / as to sense them with incense / to gild / to run on pilgrimage to them / to kneel / or pray-before them / to be more affectionate to one / then ⟨p. LXXII⟩to the other / to set lights before them with such like superstition and Idolatry. God be preacyd / I may be short / or writ nothing at all in this matter / because such as I write unto / my country men: be persuaded all ready aright in this commandment.
The first word honor / signifijthe: to bow hed legg / kne / or ony part of the body / vnto thē / as all those do / that say they may with good conscience / be suffrid in the churche of Christ. To serue them / is to do somme what for there sakes / as to sense them withe incense / to gild / to runne on pylgrymayge to them / to knele / or pray-before them / to be more affectionat to one / then ⟨p. LXXII⟩to the other / to set lightes before them withe souche like supersticion and Idolatrie. God be preacyd / I may be short / or writ nothing at all in this mater / because souche as I write vnto / my countre men: be perswadid all redy aright in this commaundement.
This second part showeth us / how Idolatry proceedeth / and taketh place in men's con science. The mind of man when it is not illuminated with the spirit of God / nor governed by the scripture / it imagineth / and feigneth god / to be like unto the imagination / and concept of his mind / and not as the scripture teacheth. When this vanity / or fond imagination is con ceauyd in the mind / there followeth a farther success of the isle. he purposeth to express / by some figure / or image / God in the same form / and similitude / that his imagination hath first printed in his mind. so that the mind conceiveth the Idol / and after ward the hand worketh / and representeth the same / unto the senses.