A03622:263
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
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Caput XVI. 3. Presumption.
The third objection / or Satanical sophism is presumption or security of God's will / when men knoweth what is to be done yet against his knowledge presuming of God's mercy doth the thing that is isle. This horrible sin extendeth wonders far. The one sitteth in judgment and falsely judgeth. The other climbeth to honour / and riches by flattery / usury / simony / extortion / fraud / and pilling of the pour. The other holdeth in the truth to bespoken / and letteth out the lies that should be kept in: with all such other like vices / as reign now a day in the world. They hire by the words of God / that those isles and abominations be cursed of God / yet hope they the contrary and think yet to have God's favour / as the text saith▪ Deut. 29. read and mark it: Cum audierie uerba juramenti huius, benedicat sibi in corde ⟨p. CCXIII⟩suo dicens: pax erit mihi, etiā si incessero in imagination cordis mei, ut addat ebriam sitienti. That is to say / when he heareth the words of this oath (where God sweareth to punish the isle Deut. 28.) he promiseth god to him self / saying in his hart / yea if I walk in the imagination of my hart / and take my pleasure there is no danger. This diabolical presumption is the occasion that men not only fall into diverse kinds of abomination / but all so persevere in the same isle. let every man judge his own conscience and see. Against the word of God he taketh hope / as it seemeth him of God's mercy / which is no hope at all / but the very with / and halter of the devil to strangle at length him / that is this persuaded in this isle / and dangerous opinion. They think it is faith / where as it is very arrogancy / a true knowledge of God / when it is but a devilish illusion / and false opinion of man as it appeareth in the same place by Moses words Non agnoscit Dominus ut propitietur ei, sed fumabit tunc furor Domini, & zelus eius in uirū istum, & cubabit super eum omnis maledictio, quae scripta est in libro isto, delebitque Dominus nomen eius sub coelo,