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Bullinger: The Decades, Vol. 2

Heinrich Bullinger · translated by H. I. (1577), edited by Thomas Harding · 1549–1551; Parker Society 1849–1852

Fifty sermons on the whole of Christian doctrine by Zwingli's successor at Zurich, widely read in Elizabethan England (the Third Decade).

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From the opening: Grace and Peace from God the Father Through Our Lord Jesus Christ

Your Majesty would, I know right well, most royal king, admit a stranger to talk with your grace, if any new guest should come and promise, that he would briefly out of the sentences and judgments of the wisest men declare the very truest causes of the felicity and unhappy state of every king and kingdom: and therefore I hope that I shall not be excluded from the speech of your Majesty, because I do assuredly promise briefly to lay down the very causes of the felicity and lamentable calamities of kings and their kingdoms so clearly and evidently, that the hearer shall not need to trouble himself with over-busy dihgence to seek out my meaning, but only to give attentive ear to that which is spoken. For, by the help of God, I will make this treatise not to be perceived only by the wit and true judgment of learned heads, but also to be seen as it were with the eyes, and handled as it were with the hands, of very idiots and unlearned hearers; and that too, not out of the doubtful decrees and devices of men, but out of the assured word of the most true God. Even the wisest men do very often deceive us with their counsels, and greatly endamage the followers thereof: but God, which is the Light and eternal Wisdom, cannot any time either err, or conceive any false opinions or repugning counsels; much less teach others any-

[1 Bishop Hooper urged BuUingcr to dedicate one of his wi-itings to King Edward at this time. Original Letters, Parker Soc. pp. 73, 78. Interesting particulars concerning the conveyance, presentation, and reception in England of this Volume occur, in chronological order, in the same Original Letters, as follows: pp. 662, 560, 665, 269, 88. See also Strypc, Eccles. Mem. Book i. chap. 30, Vol. ii. part 1, p. 390, Oxf. 1822.]

[2 Idiots: uneducated persons. See Vol. I. p. 71, n. 3.]

thing but truth, or seduce any man out of the right way. The Wisdom of the Father doth in the holy gospel cry out [johnviii. and say: "I am the light of the world: he that folio weth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of

life." This eternal wisdom of God, as it doth not disorderly wrap things up together and make them intricate, but layeth down in order and teacheth them plainly; so it doth not only minister wholesome counsels, but bringeth them to the effect which they wish that obey her. Oftentimes, verily, men do give good counsels, that are not…

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Contents (115 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Errata and Addenda
  4. Most Renowned King
  5. Grace and Peace from God the Father Through Our Lord Jesus Christ
  6. Of the Felicity, &c. of Kingdoms
  7. Third Decade of Sermon
  8. The First Sermon
  9. The Third Decade. Serm
  10. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  11. 1. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  12. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  13. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  14. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  15. I.j the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  16. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  17. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  18. 1. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  19. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  20. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  21. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Com.mandments
  22. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  23. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  24. I. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  25. The Second Sermon
  26. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  27. Ii, the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  28. II. the Eighth Precept of the Tex Commandments
  29. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  30. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  31. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  32. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  33. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  34. Hope and Manifold Consolation of
  35. II. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  36. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  37. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments. C9
  38. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  39. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  40. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  41. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  42. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  43. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  44. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  45. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  46. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  47. Iii.i the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  48. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  49. Ill, the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  50. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments
  51. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  52. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  53. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  54. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  55. III. the Eighth Precept of the Ten Commandments (continued)
  56. Covet Thy Neighbour's
  57. The Fourth Sermon
  58. IV. the Ninth and Tenth Precepts, &c
  59. IV. the Ninth and Tenth Precepts, &c (continued)
  60. IV. the Ninth and Tenth Precepts, &c (continued)
  61. IV. the Ninth and Tenth Precepts, &c (continued)
  62. IV. the Ninth and Tenth Precepts, &c (continued)
  63. IV. the Ninth and Tenth Precepts, &c (continued)
  64. The Fifth Sermon
  65. The Fifth Sermon (continued)
  66. The Fifth Sermon (continued)
  67. The third kind of holy days doth contain the feasts that The three
  68. The Sixth Sermon
  69. VI. the Ceremonial Laws of God
  70. VI. the Ceremonial Laws of God (continued)
  71. The fourth kind of sacrifices was the sacrifice of thanks- The sacrifice
  72. Of the Judicial Laws of God. the Seventh Sermon
  73. VII. the Judicial Laws of God
  74. VII. the Judicial Laws of God (continued)
  75. VII. 1 the Judicial Laws of God
  76. The Eighth Sermon
  77. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law
  78. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  79. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  80. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  81. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  82. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  83. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  84. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation or the Law
  85. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law
  86. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  87. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  88. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  89. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  90. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  91. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  92. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  93. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  94. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  95. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  96. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  97. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  98. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  99. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  100. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  101. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  102. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  103. VIII. Use, Fulfilling, and Abrogation of the Law (continued)
  104. The Ninth Sermon
  105. IX. of Christian Liberty, Works, and .Merits
  106. IX. of Christian Liberty, Works, and .Merits (continued)
  107. IX. of Christian Liberty, Works, and .Merits (continued)
  108. IX. of Christian Liberty, Works, and .Merits (continued)
  109. The Tenth Sermon
  110. IX. of Sin', and of the Kinds Thereof
  111. IX. of Sin', and of the Kinds Thereof (continued)
  112. IX. of Sin', and of the Kinds Thereof (continued)
  113. IX. of Sin', and of the Kinds Thereof (continued)
  114. IX. of Sin', and of the Kinds Thereof (continued)
  115. IX. of Sin', and of the Kinds Thereof (continued)

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Chicago
Heinrich Bullinger. Bullinger: The Decades, Vol. 2. Translated by H. I. (1577), edited by Thomas Harding. Internet Archive, 1549–1551; Parker Society 1849–1852. https://archive.org/details/decadesofhenrybu03bull
MLA
Heinrich Bullinger. Bullinger: The Decades, Vol. 2. Translated by H. I. (1577), edited by Thomas Harding, Internet Archive, 1549–1551; Parker Society 1849–1852. https://archive.org/details/decadesofhenrybu03bull
APA
Heinrich Bullinger (1549–1551; Parker Society 1849–1852). Bullinger: The Decades, Vol. 2 (H. I. (1577), edited by Thomas Harding, Trans.). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/decadesofhenrybu03bull

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