A17183:1168
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.
Now followeth the Ephod of the high priest, which differeth much from 1that whereof I spake before. For it was not of linen, but woven with weavers work of divers colours of gold, purple, and silk, being unlike to the other in shape and making. For it belonged to the high priests alone, and was a brestlap coming over the bulk from the neck to the hips: for like a curet it covered the breast, it came over the hinder part of the shoulders, and about both the sides under the armholes: bearing the same fashion that at this day women's stomachers do, which we Switzers call Libli. This Ephod he ware upon the top of his Megil that came down to his ankles. Upon each shoulder he bare on Onyx stone called Schoham, wherein were graven the names of the children of Israel: against the breast there was nothing woven in it, but a place was left void for the breastplate of Judgment. For the breastplate of Judgement which 2is called Hosen was the eighth ornament of their attire, and it was a woven cloth made of gold, purple and silk, about an handbreadth quare, and double, and hemmed about on every side, because it should not ravel out. In that there was woven precious stones of a wonderful greatness (for the kind) and of a marvellous price, which were placed so in four sundry rows, that every rank contained three stones: in which, as in the Onyx stones, were graven the names of the children of Israel. They glistered with a wonderful brightness: for no stones were set in the brestlap, but such as shone exceedingly. Whereby it seemeth that Urim and Thummim, 3was nothing else but these rows of precious stones. For Urim & Thummim signify light and perfectness, For as these stones did give great light, so were they pure without all manner of spots. And they thought that the high priest did never say right in a matter of weight, nor when he was asked, did utter truly the answers and Oracles of God, but when the breastplate of Judgement did hang on his breast. Now this breastplate of Judgement was tied to the Ephod or the other breastplate by golden rings beneath, and above it hung down the shoulders by golden chains, that were fastened under the Onyx stones. This was the most precious and excellent part of the high priests apparel.
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