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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.
And God verily saith expressly, Thy God, and not your God, that thereby every one of us may understand, that the eternal, most mighty, and holy God both is and will be the God and Lord of every particular man, that is, that he is and will be the keeper, deliverer, redeemer, the unmeasurable mountain, and bottomless sea of all good gifts of body and soul, to all them that either are, or else ever shall be.
And God verily sayth expresly, Thy God, and not your God, that thereby euery one of vs may vnderstand, that the eternall, most mightie, and holy God both is and will be the God and Lorde of euery particular man, that is, that he is and will be the kéeper, deliuerer, redeemer, the vnmeasurable mountain, and bottomelesse sea of all good giftes of body and soule, to all them that eyther are, or else euer shall be.
By this now in the second place 1we have to gather, what the good and gracious Lord requireth again at our hands, and what our duty to him both is & ought to be. For this where he saith, Thy God, betokeneth an evident relation. For if he will be mine, then I again of duty must be his. He will be my Lord and my God, therefore must I again of duty make account of, and worship him as my Lord and my God. Wherefore in this commandment there is required at our hands, that we do not only acknowledge the true God to be the true God, and so to stay there, but also that we do take and account him for our God, our Lord, our King, our Creator, our preserver, and our Father, and that we do attribute to him his properties, to wit, that he is one alone, the only fountain and giver of all good things, that he liveth, & is eternal, righteous, true, holy, happy, merciful, mighty, most excellent and chief of all. Let us therefore stick to him alone, let us obey him in all things, let us put our trust in him, let us call on him alone, let us repute him to be the giver of all good things, and crave all good gifts of him, let us thank him for all benefits whatsoever we receive, let us reverence him, and lastly, honour him in fear sincerely, in love most ardently, and in hope as constantly as may be. For hereunto belong those sentences in the books of Moses, and the holy Gospel. Thou shalt honour the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve. And again, Follow ye the Lord your God, fear him, keep his commandments, hearken to his voice, serve him, and stick to him. The Lord him self also in the Psalm crieth out, and saith: Offer to the Lord the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows