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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.
To the reader: Unto the Christian Reader.To the reader: Vnto the Chrystiane Reader.
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.
That is to say. thou art not the God that willeth he sin. Hosea. 13. it is said: Thy perdition o Israel is of thy self: and thy succour only of me. The cause of our election is the mercy of God in Christ / Ro. 9. How be it / he that will be part taker of this election / must receive the promise in Christ by faith: for therefore we be elected: because afterward we are made the members of Christ: Ephe. 1. Rom. 8. Therefore as in the justification / or remission of sin / there is a cause / though no dignity at all / in the receiver of his justification: even so we judge him by the scripture / to be justified / and hath remission of his sin / because he received the grace promised in Christ. So we judge of election / by the event / or success / that happeneth in the life of man: those only to be elected / that by faith / apprehend / the mercy promised in Christ. other ⟨image 9⟩wise we should not judge of election. for Paul saith plainly Ro. 8. that they that be led by the spirit of God / are the children of God / and that the spirit of God doth testify with our sprites / that we are the children of God. being admonished by the scripture / we must leave sin / and do the works commanded of God / or else it is a carnal opinion / that we have blinded ourselves with all of fatal destiny and will not saw us. and in case there follow not our knowledge of Christ / amendment of life: it is not lively faith that we have / but rather a vain knowledge and mere presumption. Jo. 6. saith No man cometh unto me except my father draw him? many men understand these words in a wrong sense / as though God required in a reasonable man / no more then in a dead post. and marketh not the words that follow. Omnis qui audit a patre & discit, uenit ad me. That is to say. every man that heareth / and learneth of my father / cometh to me. God draweth with his word and the holy ghost: but man nis duty is to hire and learn. that is to say / receive the grace offered / consent unto the promise / and not repugn the God / that calleth. God doth promise the holy ghost / unto them that ask him / and not to them that contemn him. We have the scripture daily in our hands / read it / and hire it preached / God's mercy ever con tineu the same. let us think verily that now God calleth / and convert our lives to it.