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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 first table. › Chapter 4: Caput IIII.The fyrst table. › Chapter 4: Caput IIII.
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chapter he showeth wherefore thou shouldest fear him / and keep his commandments / saying it shall be to thy profit. this is the manner of all men / that would have ••y thing done: first to show what profit followeth the doing of it / that the commodity / might excitat the mind / and study of him that should ⟨p. XLIII⟩do it. Moses saith it shall be well with thee. god will multiply thy seed / and give the a land flowing with milk and honey. Now if thou fear the lord god / this shall be thy reward. and the same self promise thou shall find / many times / annexed with the fear of god / before thou con to the end / of the 11. chapter. all health / and loy followeth the fear of god. Mark those words well / and print them in thy hart. Fear of no isle / nor sickness / contagious aer / or disease: so thou have this medicine of God's fear / in thy soul which preserveth health / and expulsithe all diseases. Galenus hath written books de tuenda sanitate. That is to say to preserve health. so hath Hippocr. Cornelius Celsus and other. They prescribe those six things to be observed of as many / as would live in god health. The temperature / and condition of the air. 2. Moderate use of mete / and drink 3. Motion and exercise of the body / and rest of the same 4. Sleep and watch as the complexion by nature shall in time convenient require. 5. fullness and Emptiness of the bode Gale. lib. 2. aph. comment. 17. et lib. 2. de Compos. medic. 6. perturbations / and passions of the mind. for many hath died with such passions of the mind with sudden sorrow as P. Rutilius. Plinius libr. 7. Cap. 36. and M. Lepidus. some with sudden loy as the ⟨p. XLIIII⟩Noble woman Policrata as Arist. writeth. so dyed Diagoras as Gellius writeth lib. 3. Cap. 15. and other as ye may read Plin. lib. 2. Cap. 53. Valer. Max. lib. 9. cap. 12. Some died for shame as Diodorus Plin. lib. 2. cap. 53. Homer Vale. lib. 9. cap. 12. The physicians promiseth health if these 6. rules be observed▪ but God saith all those be in vain with out the fear of him Deu. 27.28.30. there see the word of God / And look the second book of the kings cap. 24. How it was proved true / where as the pestilence infected the hole land of Canaan / from the Cite of Dan / unto the Cite of Bersabee / in three days. so that there died 70. thousand men in that short space. In the end of the 6. chapter of Deu.