A17183:1282
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.
For although Christ the son of GOD did take our nature upon him, and did become like unto us, ⟨p. 373⟩being clad as it were in the usual garment of us men: yet notwithstanding his fleshly garment (I mean his body that was like to ours) was altogether free from corruption and clean without all spots of sin. Aaron did first of all kill a steer for him self and his family: whereby he declared that he was not the very & true high Priest, but the type of him that was the true Priest. For Paul saith: Our high priest had no need, as those high priests had, first to offer sacrifices for their own sins, & then for the sins of the people. For he did that once when he offered up him self. Afterwards Aaron drew lots at the door of the tabernacle to try betwixt the two goats, which should be slain for the sacrifice, and which should be sent away as the scape goat into the desert, The two Goats do signify Christ our Lord, very God, and very man in two natures unseparated. He is slain and dyeth in his humanity: but is not slain nor dyeth in his divinity. Yet he being one and the same Christ unseparated is the saviour of the world, and doth work the redemption of us 1mortal men. So in the two Goats was a mystery hidden. And for because as Solomon saith, the lots are guided by the Lords will, it was not without the especial will of the father that the son was sacrificed and killed on the cross. Moreover the high Priest did take the blood first of the bullock, then of the slain goat, and a Censer in his hand, and went with in the veil, where, with the incense he did make a cloud of smoke before the mercy seat, and with his finger did sprinkle the blood seven times toward the mercy seat. All which the Apostle Paul expounding in the 9 to the Hebrews saith, that Christ entered not into the Tabernacle made with hands, but into the very heavens, not with the blood of a bullock, or a goat, but with his own blood, and found for us a perpetual cleansing & remission of our sins. For he is our propitiation, not for our sins only, but also for the sins of all the world. And hereunto did the Apostles allude as often as they called Christ our propitiation: as S. Paul did in y• third to the Romans, and Saint John in the second and fourth Chapter of his first Epistle.
For although Christe the sonne of GOD did take our nature vppon him, and did become like vnto vs,