The firste parte of the Christian instruction, and generall so[m]me of the doctrine, conteyned in the holy Scriptures wherein the principall pointes of the religion are familiarly handled by dialogues, very necessary to be read of all Christians. Translated into Englishe, by Iohn Shute, accordyng to the late copy set forth, by th'author Maister Peter Viret. 1565. Ouersene and perused, accordyng to the order appointed, by the Queenes maiesties iniunctions.

¶ Of the trompet vvhich did sound in the mounte Synay, & of the meanyng therof and of the blessings and cursings of the lavv, and of the publishing of the same.

[unspec 11] D. IN like sort this cornette & that trompet, was a signe and a token of that great trompet which shall sounde at the last day, and shall cause the earth to open, and shall * 1.1 come euen to the eares of the deade, which are rotten in the dust of the same, euen from the beginning of the world, and shall call both the quicke and the deade to iudgement. For euen as the people were assembled together in the mounte

Synay by the trompet that there dyd sound in like sort in the latter day, al shalbe gathered together by the sounde of * 1.2 the trumpet of that great God, to be iudged according to that law which then he gaue: We maye see the like of the cornets and trumpets which they vsed to sounde in Israel in the yeare of Iubile, and when they shoulde gather the people together to heare the law of God. Then when thys last trumpet shal sound, of the which these same haue bene euen as figures, euery man shal know of what valewe the blessings are which he hath promised to those which should obey vnto his lawe, and also the cursses with the which he threatneth al the rebels and wicked ones. For after that he had spoken on the height of the mountayne out of the mid∣dest of the smoke, and that he had geuen the lawes, the de∣terminations, the decrees, and the canons of thys great councel which he held with hys people. He gaue also the or∣der and maner of his blessinges and cursses, and maledic∣tions, which afterward likewise wer published in great so∣lemnitye and maiestye, For he commaunded that the one * 1.3 part of the twelue tribes of Israel should go vp to an hyll, to reherse the blessinges: and the other shoulde stande vpon an other to rehearse the cursses, and that the whole multi∣tude should be in a valley, to subscribe and binde them sel∣ues openly and solemnly to the obseruance of the same, in the which obligation we al ar cōprehended. T. Thys is not an obligation which a man may discharge with a summe of money.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Math. xxv. i. Cor. 15 i. Thes. v. Iohn. v.
• * 1.2

  Leui. 23
• * 1.3

  Deut. 27