1 a For this doctrine standeth not in bare knowldege, but in practise of life.
1 ! An exhortacion to obserue the Lawe without adding thereto or diminishing.
2 b Thinke not to be more wise then I am.
2 c God wil not be serued by halves, but wil haue ful obedience.
3 d Gods judgements executed vpon other idolaters oght to serue for our instruction.
4 e And were not idolaters.
6 ! Herein standeth our wisdome.
6 f Because all men naturally desire wisdome, he sheweth how to attein vnto it.
7 g Helpeing vs, and deliuering vs out of all dangers.
9 h He addeth all these wordes to shewe that we can neuer be careful ynough to kepe the lawe of God and to teache it to our posteritie.
9 ! We must teache it to our children.
11 i The law was giuen with feareful miracles, to declare bothe that God was the autor thereof, & also that no flesh was able to abide the rigour of the same.
13 k God joineth this condicion to his couenant.
15 l Signifyng that destruction is prepared for all them that make anie image to represent God.
15 ! No image oght to be made to worship.
19 m He hathe appointed them for to serue man.
20 n He hathe deliuered you out of the moste miserable slauerie, and frely chosen you for his children.
22 o Moses good affection appeareth: in that that he being depriued of suche an execellent treasure, doeth not envie them that must enjoye it.
24 p To those that come not vnto him with loue and reuerence, but rebelle against him, {Ebr 12,29}.
25 q Meaning hereby all supersticion and corruption of the true seruice of God.
26 r Thogh men wolde absolve you, yet the insensible creatures shalbe witnesses of your disobedience.
26 ! Threatenings against them that forsake the Law of God.
27 s So that his curse shal make his former blessings of none effect.
29 t Not with outwarde shew or ceremonie, but with a true confession, of thy fautes.
30 / Ebr. in the later dais.
31 u To certifie them the more of the asseurance of their salvacion.
32 x Mans negligence is partely cause that he knoweth not God.
34 y By so manifest prosses that none colde doute thereof.
35 z He sheweth the cause, why God wroght these miracles.
37 a Frely, & not of their desertes.
37 ! God chose the sede because he loued their fathers.
40 b God promiseth rewarde not for our merites, but to incourage vs, and to assure vs that our labour shal not be lost.
43 ! The thre cities of refuge.
45 c The articles and pointes of the couenant.
49 d That is, the salt Sea.