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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.
Secondarily the right hand of God is put for the virtue, kingdom, protection, 1deliverance, and power of God. For David saith: The Lords right hand is high, the Lords right hand doth mighty things. And Moses said: Thy right hand (O Lord) is magnified in power, thy right hand (O Lord) hath broken the enemy. And when the right Hand is put in this sense, then To sit doth signify to reign, to deliver, to use power, and do the office of a Prince.
Secondarily the right hand of God is put for the vertue, kingdome, protection, 1deliueraunce, and power of God. For Dauid sayth: The Lords right hande is high, the Lords righte hand doth mightie things. And Moses saide: Thy right hand (O Lord) is magnified in power, thy righte hand (O Lord) hath broken the enimie. And when the righte Hande is put in this sense, then To sit doth signifie to reigne, to deliuer, to vse power, and do the office of a Prince.
- 1Gods right hand the name of his power; and in this signification to sit is to reign
For saith David: The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. And the Prophet Zechariah saith: Behold the man, that is called the branch, he shall bud out of his place, and build the Temple of the Lord, and sit and rule upon his Throne, and be a priest upon his seat. In this sense the right hand of God is infinite and contained in no measure of place: & whereas we confess that our Lord doth sit at the right hand of the father, we do profess that the Son is exalted above all things, having all things subject under himself, as Paul in his first Chapter to the Ephesians saith: and finally that the Son being so exalted can do all thing, doth reign in the universal Church, doth deliver them that are his, doth make intercession to the father in heaven, ⟨p. 73⟩