A17183:646
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.
Of the fifth precept of the second table, which is in order the fifth of the ten Commandments, touching the honour due to parents.
Of the fift precept of the second table, which is in order the fifte of the tenne Commaundements, touching the honour due to parents.
¶ The fifth Sermon.
¶ The fifte Sermon.
Now followeth the second table of Gods law, which (by the good help of Gods holy spirit) I will declare as briefly unto you, as I have already gone through the first. And as the first contained the love of God, so doth the second teach us the charity due to our neighbour, instructing all men what they owe every one to his neighbour, and how we may in this world live honestly, civilly, and in quiet peace among ⟨p. 145⟩our selves. For our good God would have us to live well and quietly. But we, that will not know how to live well, nor yet obey his good commandments, do with our sins and iniquities, never cease to heap upon our own pates, an infinite multitude of miserable calamities. This table containeth sire commandments, the first whereof is: Honour thy father 1and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee. Very well and rightly doth the Lord begin the second table, with the honouring of our parents. For after our duty to God, the next is the reverend love that we owe to our parents, of whom next after God we have our life, and by whom we are from our infancy, brought up with incredible care and exceeding great labour. Now the very order of nature doth require that the most excellent and dearest things should always have the first and chiefest place. And that this commandment may the more easily be understood, I mean to divide my treatise thereof into three parts. In the first whereof, I will declare what degrees and kinds of men are comprehended under y name of parents. Secondarily, I will search out what kind of honour that is, and how far it extendeth, which the Lord commandeth to give to our parents. And lastly, I will both touch the promise made to godly children, and thereupon conjecture & gather the punishment appointed for the ungodly and disobedient offspring. There is none so ignorant,