Fifty Godly and Learned Sermons (The Decades)

But if any man doubt of this, let him diligently consider with him self the meaning of the Ceremony or Sacrament of that bodily deliverance, I mean the very Passover. For what is he that knoweth not, that the Paschal lamb did in a figure represent Christ our redeemer? Are Pauls words unknown, who saith: Christ our Passover is offered up? Have not all the Apostles and John Baptist called our Lord, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world? The words of the prophet Isaiah also in his. 52. Chap. are apparently known, where he compareth the delivery of Israel out of Egypt, with the redemption of all the world wrought by Christ from the slavery of sin. Wherefore in this first precept of the ten Commandments, is contained the mystery of Christ our Lord, and our salvation: So that as often as those words of God shall be recited in our ⟨p. 115⟩ears, we ought not so much to set our eyes and minds upon the ancient delivery of Israel out of Egypt, as upon the new and latter redemption, which we have by Christ Jesus, thereby to quicken our hope, and not to despair, but that the most excellent and mighty God, both is & will be our God, as heretofore he hath ben theirs. The latter branch of this first commandment ¹flatly forbiddeth us, and every one of us to have any strange Gods, that is, it taketh from us all extraordinary means, to seek the safeguard of our lives where the working finger of God is not, & whatsoever else may be either devilishly devised, or unadvisedly chosen beside the very word of God. And therefore the Lord useth a most vehement or earnest kind of speaking. For saith he, Thou shalt not have any other Gods before me. See, he saith, Thou shalt not have, & thou shalt not have before me, or before my face, or with me, or by me. We Germans say, Zu mir, oder nabend mir. Oder las; michs nit sahen ver minen ougē. For so do fathers speak in their anger, when they do earnestly forbid a wicked & heinous thing. See say they that thou do it not before mine eyes for me to see it. But now God is present every where, God seeth all things, yea, he beholdeth our harts & hidden secretes of our hearts. We must not therefore in any case, either openly or privily have any strange Gods: that is, none of us must make account of any creature, either in heaven or earth as of our God:

But if any man dout of this, let him diligently consider with him self the meaning of the Ceremonie or Sacrament of that bodily deliuerance, I meane the very Passeouer. For what is he that knoweth not, that the Paschall lamb did in a figure represent Christe our redéemer? Are Paules wordes vnknown, who sayth: Christ our Passeouer is offered vp? Haue not all the Apostles and Iohn Baptist called our Lorde, the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world? The wordes of ye prophet Esai also in his. 52. Chap. are apparantly knowne, where he compareth the deliuerie of Israel out of Egypt, with the redemption of all the worlde wrought by Christ from the slauerie of sin. Wherfore in this firste precept of the tenne Commaundements, is conteined the mysterie of Christ our Lorde, and our saluation: So that as often as those wordes of God shall be recited in our