A17183:1210
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.
They kept the feast of Tabernacles 1in the seventh month, as Moses commanded in Deuteronomium: saying, When thou hast gathered in the crop of thy land and vineyards, then shalt thou keep the feast of Tabernacles, by the space of seven days: and thou shalt be merry in thy holy day, thou and thy son and thy daughter, thy man servant and thy maid servant, the Levite, the stranger, the father less, and the widow that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt thou keep holy unto the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord hath chosen to him self: because the Lord thy God hath given thee happy success in all thy fruits, and in all the work of thy hands. See therefore that thou rejoice. Moreover the manner of this feast solemnly celebrated is to be read in the 8. Chapter of Nehemiah, where, whosoever looketh, he shall find it described at the full. Now this feast of Tabernacles of the seventh month, was divided into four solemnities. For the first day of the month was y• feast of Trumpets, or sounding of Trumpets, which was a memorial of those troublesome 2wars which the people did haply achieve by the help and aid of God, against the Amalekites, and all other their heathen enemies. And by that feast was signified that the whole life of man upon the earth is a continual 3warfare. Upon the tenth day of the same month was held the feast of cleansing. In that feast the Priest in a solemn form of words began to confess aloud the peoples sins, and every man quietly following in the same words did recite them privately to him self, & in his mind did quietly speak unto the Lord. To those confessions was added the ceremony used with the scape goat, and the sacrifice which is at large set down in the 16. Chapter of Leviticus. And so were the sins of the people cleansed: which was a type of the cleansing, that should be through Christ, who being once offered, did with the only sacrifice of his body, take away the sins of all the world. It did also contain the doctrine of true repentance. Upon the fifteenth day began the feast of Tabernacles. For by the space of 4seven whole days, that is, from the fifteenth to the 22. the people dwelt in Tabernacles.