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A03622 A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of allmygthye God wroten Exo. 20. Deu. 5. Collectyd out of the scripture canonicall, by Joanne Hopper. Hooper, John, d. 1555. 1549 (1549) STC 13746; ESTC S104202 118,189 256

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him not sauyng by the law of nature And the thyng that he may well lacke or else optayne of an other A supper or denyr for his mony or loue And neuer make mencyon of the thyng we owe him in asmouche as we be Chrystianes thus can Aristotell intret his gestes and Plato yeue his almes oure offyce is to communycat the knolege of God withe hym so to moue a communycation that the one might know the others faythe but this Cherite and Hospitalite is vsyd but of few men Incase a man shuld make mencyon of ony souche almose or intrete ony place of the scrypture at dyner or supper it were a cloyng of the stomake and takyng awaye of the appetyt a nyle saueryd messe and the warst dysshe that can be browght to the table men say that folke shuld be mery at the table and let the peracher talke of scripture as thowghe the law of God made men sory whiche conteynithe not only the solace and loy of man in this worold but also in tyme to cum for euer God take out of the hartes of men all fere and shame that we frelye confesse him as occasion shal be yeuen withe Looth Genes 19 cap. that sate in the gates of Sodoma to inuitat the strangers that came to the citie into his awne house to kepe them in vertew and preserue them from vyce Rede the chapiter and se where in consyttythe trew hospitalite farther thow seyst by this commaundement that the Israelites might constraine the the strāgers within there citeis to hire and see there religion vpon the sabbothe as euery well orderyd commune wealthe now in the tyme of the gospell shuld do the same and constrayne all people to hyre the word of God and se the mynistration of there sacramentes This daie is apoyntid also for man to consider and expend the workes of God the whiche he made in syx daies for the leste creature that God made shall teache man a knolege of the creator if it be consideryd accordynglie So that man shuld not only vse them but also yeue God thankes for them to augment faithe corroborat hope and prouoke loue Therfore God blessyd the sabboth ▪ to say made it honorable sanctified it apointid it to an holie vse gaue it certaine pryuilegis and would men to be that day holye Ffor as he hathe appointid syx daies for vs to exerci●e oure selfes in the busines and trauelles of the worold so hathe he appoyntid the seuenthe to exercise the Ceremonies of the churche whiche ar insty●udid for the preseruation of the Ministerie of the churche As to vse comume praier here the sermon vse the blyssyd supper of the lord and to yeue almes 1. Cor. 1● 14.16 althowghe the Ceremonie of the Sabboth be taken awaye Col. 2. whiche appertaynyd only vnto the people and commune wealthe of the Ebrews yet one daye of the weake to preserue and vse the word of God and his sacramēteo is not abrogatid therfore in this commaūdement ar too thynges to be obseruyd The one ceremoniall during for the time the other Morall and neuer to be abolyshid as long as the churche of Christ shall contynew vpon the Erthe The patriarches before the lawe Gene. 2. the prophetes in the tyme of the law Exod. 20. Deut. 5. we being delyueryd from the damnation of the law 1. Cor. 16. haue one daie to rest frō labour and applie oure selfes to the workes of the sprit whiche secreatlie in oure selfes shuld be dōne euery daie with our hādie labour apōthe Sondaie openly without the labour of our handes This Sonday that we obserue is not the commaundement of man as many say that would vnder the pretence of this one law bynd the churge of Christ to all other lawes that men hathe vngodlie prescribyd vnto the churche But it is by expresse wordes commaundyd that we shuld obserue this daye the Sonday for oure Sabboth as the wordes of S. Paule declarythe 1. Cor. 16. commaunding euery man to appoynt his almes for the poure in the Sonday The text saythe in one of the sabboth It is an Ebrew frace and is asmouche to saye as in the Sonday As ye may rede the same maner of speache Luce. 24. and Ioan. 20. of the womē that came to the sepulchre to anoynt the ded body of Christ Luke saythe in one of the Sabboth erly they came to the Sepulchre and so saythe Iohn by the same wordes the whiche was the sonday as noman dowtithe for it is oure faythe that christ rose the third day So may ye rede Gene. 1. where the text saythe it was euenyng and it was mornyng one dayt that is to say the fyrst daye Whiche we call the sonday and thus also saythe those that were best lernyd in the tonges among Christiane wryters Ioan. Chrysost Lactant. and Erasmus for the preseruation of the trew meanyng of the word of God and right vse of his blessyd Sacramentes he hathe yeuyn vnto the churche Apostelles Prophetes Pastors Doctors and other Ephes 4. That shuld teache vs the Scripture and wrytynges of the Prophetes ād Apostelles whiche was declarid to be trew withe many signes and tokens that we shuld not wauer with euery wynd and be caryd into errours by the doctryne of man That we shuld not fayne new doctrine out of our awne braynes but belyue as the holye churche of the Patriarches Prophetes Christ and the Apostelles whiche tawght the people as they wrote and wrote as they tawght that noman after there deathe shuld deceaue the people that Christ redemyd withe his precious blud with false and impostorous doctrine Those Ethnyck and Iewyshe doctors of the Pope how so euer the Bragg of the Name of holye churche be none other then the defenders of the Synagoge of Antechrist Sure we be that Christ the Patriarches Prophetes and Apostelles be sauyd and belyuyd no more nor none other wyce then they haue lefte vnto vs by writinges Better it is to be certaine of oure doctrine and saluation withe this holie churche then to associat our selfes with the rabull of lyers that bostythe and braggythe there abhominable and Ethnicall ceremonies which be condemnyd in the scripture to be lawes for the holye churche God yeue the grace to rede the holie Bible and to haue a litle vnderstonding of it then shalt thow se who and where is the holie churche that these dreamers attribute vnto there father the deuyll and Antechrist of Rome And if they say vnto the that thow must not take the text after thy awne mynd but after the mind of the holie Doctors that hathe wroten in the scripture thynck withe thy selfe that God hathe yeuen the the Scripture to rede therin to thy suluation as well as vnto the Doctor Farther that thy Doctor preache not alie for the truithe god hathe yeuē the the scripture to iudge thy Bishope doctor preacher ād curate whether he preache gall or hony his awne lawes or Godes lawes Farther say boldly and fere not