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.…

The fourth let or impediment is curiosity and over much searching the privities / ⟨p. CCXVIII⟩and secrets of God when men of an isle / and licentious lief return not to penance as the scripture biddeth. But mounteth straight way into God's providence and predestination. contemning the will of god that is made open to him in the scripture / that god would him now to repent / and to receive grace / Searcheth to know the thing that never was made open to man or angel the event / and end of things to con. thus reasoneth with him self / who knoweth what his last hour shall be. wherefore favoureth god the one / and not the other. Some time the good maketh be an isle end / and the isle a god. In this opinion / and inscrutable mystery he weareth all his wits / and at the end of his cogitations / findeth more abstruse / and doubtful objections than at the beginning / so that he cometh from this school nether wiser nether better Moses Deu. 29. removeth this ungodly let / and impediment saing: Secreta domini dei nostri revelata sunt• obis & filijs nostris usque in seculum, ut faciamus omnia uerba legis huius. That is to say / the secret of the lord our God are made open unto us / and unto our children for ever / that we do all the precepts of this law. The which words plainly condemneth our foolish / and audacious presumption that seeketh to know what shall happen unto us in the hour of death / and will not know the thing that should be don in all our liefer