A03622:212
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.
And so housed that the pour can not get as much as a cottage to put himself / his wife / and his children in which crieth vengeance in the aeres of the god of battle / Isaiah. 5 read the chap. and see / the curse of god against those insatiable raveners / and eaters of the pour. yet when they have all to gather and suffereth not the pour to have nor house nor rent: they will occupy yet all crafts and trade of buying / and selling that the pour man shall have nor goddes not handy craft to help himself with all. How doth these men hire / or read the word of god that biddeth them give there own goddes to the pour: which nether giveth there own / nether suffereth them not / to by at a reasonable price the thing that is not theirs. The Emph. Honour. and Theod. cod. li. 4. tit. 63. de commer. et mercat. gave other laws for there commune wealths / writing in this manner. Nobiliores natalibus & honorū luce conspicuos, & patrimonio ditiores perniciosū urbibus mercimo niū exercere prohibemus, ut inter plebeios & negotiators facilius sit emendi, uendendique commertium. That is to say / such as he ⟨p. CLXXVI⟩of noble parentage / and baring rule •n the commune wealth and rich by patrimony we forbid to exercise buying and selling which is hurtful to cites / that among the commune sort of people / and occupiers in the trade of buying and selling might be the more facile or commune. This faculty and trade of merchandise / that now is used for avarice / was invented for a good purpose to communicate such things as was necessary for the lief of man and not to the use that now it is applied / Plin. in pan. Diversasque gentes ita commertio commiscuit, ut qd gentiū esset usquā, id apud omnes gentes natū esse uideretur ▪ souche as god hath given goods unto or possessions of the world / should live upon the same. and he that hath one craft to live by / should not occupy too / for fear of doing wrong to his neighbour.
And so haūsid that the poure cā not gote as mouche as a cotaige to put hīselfe / his wiefe / ād his childrē in whiche cryythe vēgē ce ī the aeres of the god of batell / Esai. 5 rede the chap. ād se / the curse of god agaīst those infaciable rauēers / ād eters of the poure. yet whē they haue all to gather and suffrithe not the poure to haue nor house nor rēt: they will ocopie yet all craufftes ād trade of bijng / ād selling that the poure mā shaall haue nor goddes not handie crauffte to helpe hīselfe withe all. How doothe these men hyre / or rede the word of god that biddithe them yeue there awne goddes to the poure: whiche nether yeuithe there awne / nether sufferithe them not / to by at a resonable price the thīg that is not thers. The Emph. Honor. and Theod. cod. li. 4. tit. 63. de cōmer. et mercat. gaue other lawes for there cōmune wealthes / writing in this maner. Nobiliores natalibus & honorū luce cōspicuos, & patrimonio ditiores perniciosū urbibus mercimo niū exercere prohibemus, ut inter plebeios & negotiatores facilius sit emendi, uendendique commertium. That is to say / souche as he