A03622:9
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.
To the reader: Unto the Christian Reader.To the reader: Vnto the Chrystiane Reader.
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.
Here see we the alliance and confederacy made Between God and man / and the writings given: like wise how it was made. But wherefore it was made / and for who is merits / yet by these texts we see not: why God should love man that so neglected his commandments / favoured and loved / believed and / trusted better the devil then God: Genes. 3. so far offended the divine majesty of God / and degenerated from grace / and godliness by custom of sin and contempt of God / that he bewailed / and repented that ever he made man: Gene. 6. and decreed to destroy the creature man / that he created / as he did in deed. Not only thus destroying man / but also protested openly / that better it had ben Judas never to have bin born / Matt. 26. and in the 25. chapter of the same Gospel / the displeasure of God is declared so great / that he appointeth man to an other / end then he was created for: saying / depart ye doers of iniquity from me unto eternal fire / prepared / not for man but for the devil / and his Angels. What is now more contrary one to the other / and farther at debate / then God and man / that now we see bound in lege to gather / as very friends. Moses Deut. 9. showeth / that only mercy provoked God unto this alliance / to receive them into grace / deliver them out of Egypt / and to possess the plenteous land of Canaan: farther that God found just matter and occasion to expulse thin habitants of that land / and found