A17183:811
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.
Beside all this the most holy Prophet 1Jeremiah crieth to the king, and saith: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent, do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, and shed no innocent blood. Thus much touching ⟨p. 195⟩the office of Judges.
Beside all this the most holie Prophete 1Ieremie crieth to the kinge, and saith: Keepe equitie and righteousnesse, deliuer the oppressed from the power of the violent, doe not greeue nor oppresse the straunger, the fatherlesse, or the widowe, and shed no innocēt bloud. Thus much touching ⟨p. 195⟩the office of Iudges.
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But in the eyes of some men, this 1our discourse may seem vain and fruitless: unless we do also refute their objections, whereby they endeavour to prove, that pleadings and law matters are at an end, because the Lord in the Gospel saith: To him that will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And again, While thou art yet with thine adversary upon the way, agree with him quickly, least he deliver thee to the tormentor. They add moreover the strifes in the law, which S. Paul the Apostle in the s••te Chapter of his Epistle to the Corinthians, doth flatly condemn.