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 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 Exo. 20. unto all the people it was preached / not in an obscure / and dark place: but in the mount / ⟨p. XXXIII⟩clearly and openly that no man should doubt of it / as though it came out of Trophonius cave / saint Patrice purgatory / or the privy chamber of the Bishop of Rome. Both the law / and the law giver / known of all the people. Minos was familiar with Jupiter / as the Poetis feign. Numa had communication with Egeria the Godes / but no man was record thereof. He might therefore feign what he list. As many superstitious hippocrates hath done. There appeared unto Gregory a child in the bred of the altar / the which vision if it were true was devilish / and wrought by the devil to deceive the people of God. Brigitta saw like wise in here contemplations wonders. The Bishops in there decretals seeth like wise marvels and mysteries that no man else can see: except he be sworn to renounce God's laws. For they teach one faith / and the gospel an other / one kind of god works and Christ an other.

The fyghithe preparat••e is / that they shuld esteme this doctrine of the commaundementes as it was worthy. And declaryd the estimation therof withe mony reasones. The fyrst / of the vtilite / ād profete that it bringithe wherof he spekythe in the 4. cap. Deut. Haec est sapientia, & intelligentia vestra coram populo. That is to say / this is youre wysdome / and prudence before the people: this is the doctrine onlie and law that teachithe how to lyue well / ād to auaide the displeasur / boothe of god and man / and ledithe to eternall felicite. what other people is there of the worold / saithe Moses that hathe there godes as present / as oure lord God as many times / as we inuocate and call vpon him. This doctrine was yeuē from heauē / and the auctor there of is God. A doctrine allwaies to be lernid and obseruid: not in Paper / or parshment / but in the hart of man. And dailie tawghte vnto the worold / as the maner of the yeuyng of it declarithe