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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.
Furthermore, the Apostle Paul calleth hope, as it were, the safe & sure anchor of the soul. And by how much the promise of God is the surer, by so much is hope the more firm and secure. For hope is not the looking for of any thing whatsoever, but of faith, that is of the thing, that faith hath believed, and which we know to be promised to us in the word of God. And therefore doth Paul expound faith by hope, where he saith: Faith is the ground of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith therefore is as it were the foundation, whereupon hope doth rest, and so God himself & his infallible word is the object to our hope. And for that cause Paul calleth God our hope: and so do the Prophets also. To this belongeth the 91. Psalm, where the faithful crieth: Thou art my hope (O Lord) thou hast set thine house very high. Like to this thou shalt find an innumerable sort of places in the book of the Psalms. But hope cannot be sure, where there is no sound faith, and express promise of God. Now since Gods promises are as well of things temporal as eternal, hope also is as well of things transitory as everlasting.
Furthermore, the Apostle Paule calleth hope, as it were, the safe & sure anchor of the soule. And by how much the promise of God is the surer, by so much is hope the more firme and secure. For hope is not the looking for of any thing whatsoeuer, but of faith, that is of the thing, that faith hath beleeued, and which we knowe to be promised to vs in the woord of God. And therefore doth Paule expounde faith by hope, where he saith: Faith is the ground of thinges hoped for, the euidence of thinges not seene. Faith therfore is as it were the foū dation, wherupon hope doth rest, and so God himselfe & his infallible word is the obiect to our hope. And for that cause Paul calleth God our hope: and so doe the Prophets also. To this belongeth the 91. Psalm, where ye faithfull crieth: Thou art my hope (O Lord) thou hast set thine house verie highe. Like to this thou shalt find an inumerable sort of places in the booke of the Psalmes. But hope cannot bée sure, where there is no sound faith, and expresse promise of God. Nowe since Gods promises are as well of thinges temporall as eternall, hope also is as wel of things transitorie as euerlasting.