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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.
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.
Then how the law should be used.
Then how the law shuld be vsyd.
Thirdly / prepare the Readers mind / that he may always read / and hire / these commandments with fruit / and commodity.
Thyrdely / prepare the Readers mynd / that he may allwayes rede / and hyre / these commaundementes withe frute / and commodite.
Fourthly interpret every commandment severally / that the Reader may perceive / what god the giver of the law requireth of every man / that professeth his name.
Forthelye interpretat euery cōmaundement seuerally / that the Reader may perceaue / what god the yeuer of the law requirithe of euery mā / that professithe his name.
Justinian. lib. 1. pandect. tit. 1. saith that the law is a faculty / or science of the thing tat is god and right / as celsus there defineth. Or thus the law is a certain rule / or canon / to do well by / which ought to be known / and kept of all men. Cice. de leg. saithe / that the law / is a certain rule / proceeding from the mind of God / persuading right / and forbidding wrong.