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.…

Unto the Christian Reader.

Vnto the Chrystiane Reader.

I Commend here unto thy charity and Godly love Christian Reader / the ten commandments of almighty God / written Exod. 20. and Deut. 5. the which were given to this use / an end / diligently to be learned / and religiously observed Deu. 4. Mat. 7. My mind / and commentaries in them I beseech the to read with judgment / and give sentence with knowledge: as I doubt nothing at all of thy charity / or god willing hart towards me / and all well meaning persons. But for as much as there can be no contract / peace / alliance / or confederacy between too persons or more / except first the persons that will contract / agree within them selves upon such things as shall be contracted / as thou right well knowest: also seeing these ten commandments / are nothing else but the Tables or writings that contain the conditions of the peace between God and man Gen. 19. and declareth at large / how / and to what the persons named in the writings are bound unto the other: Gene. 17.22. Jere. 7. I will be God / and you shall be my people. God and man are knit to gather / and unit in one. It is necessary to know / how God / and man was made at one / that such conditions could be ⟨image 3⟩