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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 doth not the Lord our redeemer also, require charity of all men, which must so abound, that we may not stick to die for our neighbour? To kill our neighbour therefore is flatly repugnant to Christian religion. And take this by the way too, that the blood of man shed by murder, crieth out of the earth to heaven for revengement. For to Cain, when he had slain his brother, it was said: The voice of thy brothers blood crieth out of the earth, and is come up to me. For bloodshed verily polluteth and maketh the ground accursed whereon it is shed, and is not cleansed again nor easily appeased, until it do also […] the guilty blood of them, which spilt before the guiltless blood of innocents.
And doth not the Lord our redéemer also, require charitie of all men, which must so abound, that wée may not sticke to die for our neighbour? To kill our neighbour therefore is flatly repugnaunt to Christian religion. And take this by the way too, that the bloud of man shedde by murder, crieth out of the earth to heauen for reuengment. For to Cain, when he had slaine his brother, it was said: The voyce of thy brothers bloud crieth out of the earth, and is come vp to mee. For bloudshedde verilie polluteth and maketh the ground accursed whereon it is shedde, and is not cleansed againe nor easilie appeased, vntill it doe also 〈…〉 the giltie bloud of them, which spilte before the giltlesse bloud of innocentes.
Lastly murders procure & mark y• ⟨p. 168⟩conutters thereof with endless spots of reproachful infamy, and that which is worst of all, it bringeth unto them everlasting damnation. Wherefore Solomon in his Proverbs, saith: My son if sinners entice thee, consent not unto them. If they say, Come with us, we will lay wait for blood: & will lurk privily for the innocent without a cause. We will swallow them up like the grave quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit. We shall find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with the pray. Cast in thy lot among us: we will all have one purse: My son walk not thou with them, but rather pull back thy foot from their ways. For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood. Now David saith that The bloodthirsty man, and the hypocrite, are abominable to the Lord.