A03622:102
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 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.