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.…

when it pleaseth God such a transgressor to be taken / the judge that judgeth and the person that is judged should think / this is the time that the commune wealth / should be delivered from an isle person. and he tha• must suffer / should think this is the time that God will punish me for my sin / and call me to his mercy.

when it pleasythe God souche a transgressour to be taken / the iudge that iudgithe and the person that is iudgid shuld thinke / this is the tyme that the commune wealthe / shuld be delyuerid from an ile person. and he tha• must suffer / shuld thynk this is the tyme that God will punyshe me for my synne / and call me to his mercy.

The prince huld suffer the ordinance of god to take place. for as Teren. saith male docet facilitas multa. Heautonei. that is to say over much pity teacheth many things isle. the which vice he teacheth men beware / of in Hecy. Etsi ego meis me omnibus scio etiam ad prime obseruantem, sed non adeo ut facilitas mea illorū corrumpat animos. Therefore he that would purchase a charter / should rather come to the prison to comfort the afflicted man and say. this trouble is the preacher sent from God to bring the to acknowledge of thy sin / and to call the to penance. Thou seest how the devil hath prevailed against thee. Following the blindness of thine affection thou gavest place to the devil that delighteth in the isle doings of men therefore thou must suffer the pain of the law. and from henceforth thou shalt give no place more ⟨p. CLI⟩unto him. know Christ / and believe that in him thou shalt suffer no pain for thy transgression but only the death of the body. he shall now carry the / from the Gallows into eternal loy as he did the thief in the cross. Obey therefore the commandment of God in this public ministration of justice for now is thy time to die / not that God hateth thee / but of a singular love that thou shouldest hurt no more thy self and other. beg with me in christ thy charter of God / and his mercy shall give the eternal lief which thou mayst boldly by the law acleme. And not to put him in a false hope of mans remission that can give no pardon at all if they dowel. in case a private person / a man that loveth peace happen to be oppressed at any time of those breakers of peace / […] robbers by the high way side or other waes / cannot defend his lief / and body / wite out using resistance / and the oppressor will not be content / nether with reason / nether with fere words / nether the man oppressed may in nowise find place / to a void the fury of this oppressor in defending his own lief / if he kill his adversaries he no more offendeth God's laws / nether mans laws then though he killed a wolf / or mad dog as Moses killed the Egyptian or as the godly magistrate killeth privately