A17183:1180
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 that tabernacle or tent (being called the tabernacle of appointment, because the Lord appointed it both to give answers in, and to have his lawful worship duly accomplished in) was to the people in steed of a temple, so long as they wandered & dwelt in the wilderness. For in so much as they strayed 40. years in the desert, it was not convenient for them to have a settled temple, but such an one as in their journeys they might carry to and fro, so oft as they removed. That tabernacle was erected in this order, and was in a manner of this form and fashion. First of all 1there were ••uck into the earth close by the ground, silver sockets to fasten in, and set boards upon to make a wall withal: under every plank or board were two sockets. For every board had two tenons like pikes, whereby they were stuck into the sockets. The boards on either side of the tabernacle North and South were twenty in number, at the upper end, which was toward the West, were ten boards or planks, all laid over with gold, and ten cubits high a piece. These, when they were set up, were stuck or fastened into the sockets: upon the back sites, those boards had golden rings, through which were bars of […] wood (which i• thought to be white Thorn) ⟨p. 340⟩thrust, partly to join the boards close together, that they might be like a wall without chink or crevice, and partly to make them stand steadfast without wagging to and fro. The Sanctum on the East side, was shut up with a veil. Moreover there were made ten curtains or hangings of broidered work, which were coupled together with loops or taches. These curtains were laid upon the tops of the boards, that were set upright, as it had been the rafter or roof of an house: over which curtains were three coverings more, the uppermost whereof was of Taxus leather, well able in rain to keep water out. Now the tabernacle was in length 30. cubits, and in breadth 10. cubits: as may be gathered by the measure of the boards. It was divided also into three parts, The first was called Sanctum sanctorum, Holy of holies, and Adytum aedis (the house into which no man came but the high priest alone) or y• Chancel of the temple. The second was the Sanctum, whose length was twenty cubits, as the length of the first was ten.