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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
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IT is well known by the places afore rehearsed / that the law of God requireth an inward / and perfect obedience / unto the will of God / the which this nature of man corrupted by Original sin cannot perform / as saint Paul proveth manifestly in the 7. an 8. chapter to the Romans. There remaineth in man as long as he liveth ignorance / and blindness / that he knoweth not god / nor his law as he awghe to do. But rebelleth by contumacy against God. For no man suffereth God's visitations ⟨p. XVIII⟩/ and punishments / with such pacien• as is required. No man can abide to hire his defaults rebuked by the law / but hateth his admonitors / and would that there were nether God / nether law so that he might unpunished satisfy his pleasure. Like wise the will as froward / and perverse that it willeth nothing of God / nor of his law / if it diminish any part of such goddes / or pleasure / as the world requireth / as we may see / by daily defection / and departure from the knowledge of God's word / in those that once were as ardent as fire. But now as the Gadarenes did / Matth. 8. Luce 8. Marc. 5. They desire Christ do depart out of there country / rather then they would lost there swine. Where is now the will / that freely and Frankly should for sake all the goddes of the world / and also this mortal life / rather then to leave Jesus Christ / which as Johan saith / only hath the word of eternal live cap. 6. it is not need to prove this perverseness and wicked resistance against God and virtue by the example of other: but every man may find himself to much infected with this disease / would he look upon his own lief / and be as equal a judge of him self / as he is temerous in judging of other. Then should he file the same isle in himself / that he seeth in an other and every man damned before God / except such ⟨p. XIX⟩as believe in Jesus Christ / Rom. 5. And study to live after his law / 2. Cor. 5. Lu. 1. Tit. 1