A17183:1067
Fifty Godly and Learned Sermons (The Decades)
Fifty godly and learned sermons divided into five decades, containing the chief and principal points of Christian religion, written in three several tomes or sections, by Henry Bullinger minister of the church of Tigure in Switzerland. Whereunto is adjoined a triple or three-fold table very fruitful and necessary. Translated out of Latin into English by H.I. student in divinity.Fiftie godlie and learned sermons diuided into fiue decades, conteyning the chiefe and principall pointes of Christian religion, written in three seuerall tomes or sections, by Henrie Bullinger minister of the churche of Tigure in Swicerlande. Whereunto is adioyned a triple or three-folde table verie fruitefull and necessarie. Translated out of Latine into English by H.I. student in diuinitie.
London: printed by Henry Middleton for Ralph Newberrie, 1577London: printed by Henry Middleton for Ralphe Newberrie, 1577
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.
why doest thou regard them that despise thee, & holdest thy tongue while the wicked treadeth down the man that is more righteous then himself? The wicked doth circumvent the righteous, & therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. In Malachi 1the hypocrites do cry: It is but vain to serve God, and what profit is it, that we have kept his commandments? & that we have walked hum blie before the face of the lord? Now therefore we call the proud and arrogant, blessed & happy: for the workers of wickedness live happily and are set up, & they that tempt God, go on in their wickedness, and are delivered. The holy prophet Asaph containeth 2all this most fully and significantly in the Psalm where he saith: My feet were almost gone, my treadings had well nigh slipped: for I was grieved at the wicked, when I did see the ungodly in such prosperity: for they are in no peril of death, they are, I say, troubled with no diseases, whereby they are drawn as it were to death, but are lusty and strong. They come into no misfortune like other men: but are free from the evils wherewith other folk are plagued: and this is the cause that they are so holden with pride, & wrapped in violence as in a garment. Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust. They stretch forth their mouth unto heaven, and their tongue goeth thorough the world. Yea & they dare to say: Tush how should God perceive it? Lo these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world & these have riches in possession. Then said I have I cleansed my hart in vain. & •ashed mine hands in innocency▪ and I bear punishment every day. ⟨p. 293⟩And while I thought thus to my self, I had almost departed from the generation of Gods children.
whie doest thou regard them that despise thee, & holdest thy tongue while the wicked treadeth downe the man that is more righteous then himselfe? The wicked doth circumuēt the righteous, & therfore wrong iudgment procedeth. In Malachie 1the hypocrites do crie: It is but vaine to serue God, and what profite is it, that wee haue kept his cōmaundements? & that we haue walked hū blie before the face of the lord? Now therfore we call the proud and arrogant, blessed & happie: for the workers of wickednes liue happilie and are set vp, & they that tempt God, go on in their wickednes, and are deliuered. The holy prophet Asaph conteyneth