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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 here is not the name of the father only, but also the name of the mother in express words set down in the law, least she peradventure should seem & be contemptible without any offence to God, because of the weakness of her frail sex. The godly & virtuous mothers, do feel & abide more pain & grief in the bearing bringing up, & nourishing of their children, than the fathers do. For no small cause therefore have we the name of the mother, precisely expressed in this commandment. We do also comprehend herein the grandfather and grandmother, the great grandsire & great grandam, & all other like to these. In the 1second place we do contain every mans country wherein he was borne, which fed, fostered, adorned, & defended him. Thirdly, we take Princes and Magistrates 2into the name & title. For the Senators and Princes are in the holy scriptures, called the fathers and pastors of the people. Xenophon was persuaded, that a good Prince did differ nothing from a good father. Fourthly, there are to be reckoned under the name 3of parents those guardians, which are usually called overseers of fatherless children, or orphans. For they supply the place of departed parents, taking upon them the charge & defence of their children, whom they must (for that affection ought to be in them) bring up, defend, & advance even as they would do to their own, & those that they them selves did once beget. Among whom also we must make account of such ⟨p. 146⟩masters and workmen as teach them an Art or occupation. For of them young men and striplings learn some honest science, for every one to get his living honestly, and by them they are taught good manners, being thereby, after a certain sort, out of rude unpolished stuff, made perfect seemly men. Fifthly, 4the ministers, doctors, & pastors of the Churches, are taken for parents. whom Paul him self did call by the name of fathers, not so much for the care & love wherewith they are affected toward the disciples & sheep of Christ his flock, as for because we are by them through the gospel begotten in Christ. In the sixth place, we must think of our cousins and kinsfolks, brother &