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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The fourth preparative is / that they should observe / the commune laws used among all people which is called jus gentium. that they should peaceable pass by the possessions of the children of Esau the Mount Seir and like wise by the Moabites / not to molest them / nether there Godes. but by such things as they wanted for money / till they passed there limits / and bonds the which law bound them / not to spoil / rob / and burn / where so ever they came as well there friends as there fores / as it is used in our time among Christians / that say silent ⟨p. XXXII⟩leges inter arma, That i• to say: laws be dispensed with all in the time of war. contrary unto this devilish opinion / God required them to pass as true men / and not as thieves / as those that were obedient unto all honest / and godly laws / and not as exempt and privileged persons from all virtues / and godliness.
The fourthe preparatiue is / that they shuld obserue / the commune lawes vsyd among all people whiche is callid ius gentium. that they shuld peaceable passe by the possessions of the children of Esau the Mount Seir and like wice by the Moabitis / not to molest thē / nether there Godes. but by souche thinges as they wantid for monie / till they passid there limites / ād bondes the whiche law bound them / not to spoyle / robbe / and barne / wher so euer they came as well there frendes as there fores / as it is vsyd in oure tyme among Christianes / that say silent ⟨p. XXXII⟩leges inter arma, That i• to say: lawes be dispensid withe all in the tyme of war. contrary vnto this deuillishe opinion / God requirid them to passe as trew men / and not as thyffes / as those that were obedient vnto all honest / and godly lawes / and not as exempt and priuilegyd persones from all vertews / and godlynys.
The fifth preparat••e is / that they should esteem this doctrine of the commandments as it was worthy. And declared the estimation thereof with money reasons. The first / of the utility / and profit that it bringeth whereof he speaketh in the 4. cap. Deut. Haec est sapientia, & intelligentia vestra coram populo. That is to say / this is your wisdom / and prudence before the people: this is the doctrine only and law that teacheth how to live well / and to avoid the displeasure / both of god and man / and leadeth to eternal felicity. what other people is there of the world / saith Moses that hath there gods as present / as our lord God as many times / as we invocate and call upon him. This doctrine was given from heaven / and the author there of is God. A doctrine always to be learned and observed: not in Paper / or parchment / but in the hart of man. And daily taught unto the world / as the manner of the yeuyng of it declareth