A17183:1184
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
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and therefore the sundry members of the Church must be gathered together and by charity be knit together in one, that they may be one among themselves, and as it were a roof of righteousness in the Church of God. The coverings of the Church to keep out storms are faith, repentance, & desire to do good. Christ himself is the socket thereof. For none other foundation can be laid than that that is already laid, even Christ Jesus. Moreover the veil that was spread before the Sanctum sanctorum, did signify as the holy Apostle 1saith, that the way of y• saints, which they had to go in, was not as then made manifest, so long as y• first tabernacle did stand. Therefore when Christ was come, and with his death had finished all, then the veil that hung in the temple was rent from the top to the very ground, whereby all men might understand, that the way was opened into the Sanctum fanctorum, that is, into the very heavens, & that satisfaction was made for all men in respect of the law. In the tabernacle also did hang other veils, which were as shadows of y• flesh of Christ. Those veils did hang at the very entry into the Sanctum and the Atrium. Now Christ our Lord is the way and the door, by whose incarnation and death, we have an entry made into the kingdom of God. Yea Christ himself is our tabernacle in whom we dwell & live, and in whom we worship and please our God: he is the curtain and ceiling, the rafter & ornament of his Church: he is the trusty & most assured covering that doth […] us from the injuries of man and the devil: he is the bar of the Church, which joineth the members thereof together, & keepeth them in the unity of faith, he is the pillar and socket of his Church, he is the head, and only all-in-all both of our life and true salvation. In those figures therefore they of old had the chief mysteries hidden of Christ and the Church, in which Christ is now no otherwise to be behold, than he was in the beginning of the world beheld of the ancient Patriarchs, to wit, very God and very man, the only and highest king and priest, the true Saviour of the world, in whom and by whom alone the faithful have their whole salvation.
and therefore the sundrie members of the Church must be gathered together and by charitie bee knit together in one, that they may be one amonge themselues, and as it were a rouffe of righteousnesse in the Church of God. The coueringes of the Church to kéepe out stormes are faith, repentance, & desire to do good. Christ himselfe is the socket thereof. For none other foundation can bee layed than that that is alreadie layed, euen Christ Iesus. Moreouer the vaile that was spread before the Sanctum sanctorum, did signifie as the holy Apostle