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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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The second rule / or preparative is: that thou ⟨p. XXIX⟩have aright opinion / of the magistrates / and superior pours of the earth / that thou give them no more / nether no lose honour / nor reverence / then the word of God commandeth. This he declareth by the 12. Princes that were sent to explorate / and search the privities and condition of the land of Canaan / too of them persuaded the people to believe God's promise / and not to fear the people / that dwellyd in the land. unto these Godly Princes / was no faith / nor credit given of the people. The Princes that persuaded the thing contrary unto God / were believed of the people / and there counsel admitted. by this we learn / that such Magistrates / as persuade the people by God's word / should be believed and obeyed / the other not / in the cause of conscience. There / must God only be hard Act. 5. Matt. 10. Or else people shall fail of a right faith / for he that knoweth not / what his duty is to God / and his laws: will believe rather ally with his fore fathers: then the truth with the word of God. and this man is no mete auditor nor disciple of the word of God.
The second rule / or preparatyue is: that thow ⟨p. XXIX⟩haue aright opinion / of the magistrates / and superiour poures of therthe / that thow yeue thē nomore / nether no lese honor / nor reuerence / then the word of God commaundithe. This he declarithe by the 12. Princes that were sent to explorate / and sarche the priuites and conditiō of the lond of Canaan / too of thē perswadid the people to beliue Godes promes / and not to fere the people / that dwellyd in the land. vnto these Godly Princes / was no faithe / nor credit yeuē of the people. The Princes that perswadid the thing contrary vnto God / were beliuid of the people / and there counsell admittyd. by this we lern / that souche Magistrates / as perswade the people by Godes word / shuld be beliuid and obeide / the other not / in the cause of consciens. There / must God only be hard Act. 5. Matt. 10