A17183:709
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 now let us hear the testimonies 1of Scripture, which command all householders to instruct holily their family in the true religion, and to declare to their children the meaning of the Sacraments. Moses in the sixth of Deuter. saith:
And now let vs heare the testimonies 1of Scripture, which commaund all housholders to instruct holily their familie in the true religion, and to declare to their children the meaning of the Sacramentes. Moses in the sixte of Deuter. sayth:
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Hear Israel the Lord our God is Lord only: Therefore shalt thou love the Lord thy God, with all thy hart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart. And thou shalt show them unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And again, When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: what mean these testimonies, ordinances, and laws, which the Lord our God hath commanded us? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, we were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out with a mighty hand, and showed signs and mighty wonders before our eyes, and brought us out from thence and gave us all these precepts and statutes to do and to fear the Lord our God. Hereunto belongeth a great part of the. 78. Psalm. And in the. 13. of Exodus, the Lord doth say again: Sanctify to me all the first borne, And when thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying: what is this? Thou shalt say to him, The Lord slue all the first borne of Egypt, and therefore I sacrifice unto the Lord all the males that open the matrice. Also in the. 12. Chapter, God, or Moses in Gods name, expounding the mystery or sacrament of the Passover, said: When your children ask you saying, what manner of service is this that ye do? ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lords Passover, which passed over the houses of the children of Israel. &c. These testimonies are sufficiently evident and need no further exposition. I will now therefore add to these the other things which parents have to teach their children.