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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.
The second table. › Chapter 8: Caput VIII.The seconde table. › Chapter 8: Caput VIII.
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 prince and King how to keep the in thy nawne country in wealth and felicity / that thou be not made prisoner nor bound man to astrainge nation / thy contraries / and thy mortal Enemies. The land it self bringeth the fruit and all things necessary for thy lief the which thy fathers wan with there blood / and maintained with there body and goddes. Thy preacher telleth the will of God and all his study is to bring the to eternal felicity unto those tho owest of duty a filial reverence and honour. To thy father Exo. 20. Deu. 5. Prover. 10. Ephe. 6. Eccl. 3. To thy Prince and lawful Magistrate / Jos. 1. Rom. 13. Ephe. 6. Tit. 3. Heb. 13.1. Pet. 2 To thy Elders / Levit. 19.1. Timo. 5. The which was observed also among the gentiles as Juvenal the Poet saith thought it that a fault worthy death if the younger honoured not the elder. As for the defence of the country it was and is of ⟨p. CXXIX⟩all natural men that there needeth / nor testimony nor Example Moses / Deu. 20. The profane writers as Horace thus: Dulce & decorum pro patria mori. That is to say. it is sweet / and decent to die for the country. The Lacedaemon that were slain in Termin. had this Epitaph one there graves.
The prince and King how to kepe the in thy nawne countre in wealthe and felicite / that thow be not made prisoner nor bound man to astrainge nation / thy contraries / ād thy mortall Ennimyes. The land it selfe bryngythe the frute ād all thinges necessarie for thy lief the whyche thy fathers wan withe there bludd / ād maynteinid withe there bodie and goddes. Thy preacher tellythe the will of God and all his studie is to bring the to eternall felicite vnto those tho awist of dewty a filiall reuerēce and honor. To thy father