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Godly meditations upon the Lords prayer, the belief, and ten commandments with other comfortable…Godlie meditations vpon the Lordes prayer, the beleefe, and ten commaundementes with other comfortable…
Godly meditations upon the Lords prayer, the belief, and ten commandments with other comfortable meditations, prayers and exercises. Whereunto is annexed a defence of the doctrine of gods eternal election and predestination, gathered by the constant martyr of God John Bradford in the time of his imprisonment. The contents whereof appear in the page next following.Godlie meditations vpon the Lordes prayer, the beleefe, and ten commaundementes with other comfortable meditations, praiers and exercises. Whereunto is annexed a defence of the doctrine of gods eternall election and predestination, gathered by the constant martyr of God Iohn Bradford in the tyme of his imprisonment. The contentes wherof appeare in the page nexte folovvyng.
London : Now first printed by Rouland Hall, dwelling in gutter lane at the sign of the half Eagle and key, the .12. of October 1562London : Nowe fyrst prynted by Rouland Hall, dwellyng in gutter lane at the signe of the halfe Egle and key, the .12. of October 1562
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.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not steale.
Now that thou hast taught me the service required of thee for me to observe towards the personages of all men and women of every condition: thou beginnest to tell me what thou wouldest I should do concerning their goods: and as in the next commandment before this thou diddest command unto me sobriety & pureness, so doest thou in this Justice and righteousness, forbidding me to steal. Under the which word thou comprehendest all kinds of deceit. The which thing thou doest because thou wouldest that I should give my self wholly to the study and exercise of Justice, as in the precepts next going before, thou wouldest I should give over my self wholly to the keeping of sobriety & pureness. So that I see thy good pleasure herein is not that I should alonely abstain from ⟨image 66⟩all theft: but also from all fraud and craft in word or deed, yea that I should earnestly follow and exercise all equity, trueth and Justice.
NOwe that thou hast taught me the seruice required of thee for me to obserue towards the personages of all men and women of euery conditiō: thou beginnest to tell me what thou woldest I shoulde doe concerninge their goodes: and as in the nexte commaundemente before this thou dyddest cōmaūde vnto me sobrietie & purenes, so doest thou in this Iustice and rightuousnes, forbydding me to steale. Under the whiche word yu comprehendest al kindes of desceite. The which thing yu doest because yu woldest that I shuld geue my selfe wholy to the studie and exercise of Iustice, as in the precepts next going before, yu woldest I shuld geue ouer my selfe wholy to the keping of sobrietie & purenes. So that I see thy good pleasure herein is not that I sheuld alonely abstaine from