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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.
A declaration of the faith or preaching of the Evangelical and apostolical trueth, by the blessed martyr Irenaeus, taken out of the 2. Chap. of his first book Contra Valent.
A declaration of the faith or preaching of the Euangelicall and apostolicall truethe, by the blessed martyr Irenaeus, taken out of the 2. Chap. of his first booke Contra Valent.
The church dispersed through the whole world even to the ends of the earth, hath of the Apostles and their Disciples 1received the belief which is in one God the father almighty, which made Heaven, and earth, the Sea, and all that in them is. And in one Jesus Christ the Son of God (who was) incarnate for our salvation. And in the holy Ghost, who by the prophets preached▪ the mystery of the dispensation & the coming of the beloved Jesus Christ our Lord with his nativity of the virgin, and his passion, and resurrection from the dead, and his ascension in the flesh into the Heavens, and his coming again out of the heavens in the glory of the father to restore all things, and to raise up again all flesh of mankind: so that to Christ Jesus our Lord, both God, and ⟨image 9⟩saviour, and king, according to the will of the invisible father, every knee may bow, of things in Heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue may praise him, and that he may judge rightly in all things, and that he may cast the spirits of naughtiness, with the angels which transgressed and became rebels, and wicked, unjust, mischievous, and blasphemous men into eternal fire: and that to the just and holy ones, and such as have kept his commandments and remained in the love of him, partly from the beginning, and partly by repentance, he may grant life, bestow immortality, and give glory everlasting. The Church, although it be dispersed throughout the whole world, having obtained, as I have said, this confession and this faith, doeth as it were dwelling together in one house, diligently keep them, and likewise believe them, even as if it had one soul and the same hart, and doeth preach, teach, and agreeably deliver these things, even as if it had all one mouth. For in the world the tongues are unlike, but the force of teaching is one and the same. Neither do the Churches whose foundation is laid in Germany believe otherwise, or teach to the contrary: