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The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in the former part of homilies. Set out by the authority of the Queens Majesty: and to be read in every parish church agreeably.The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.
Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richard Jugge, and John Cawood, printers to the Queens Majesty, 1571Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Queenes Maiestie, 1571
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Wherefore if ye have any reverence to the service of God, if ye have any common honesty, if ye have any conscience in keeping of necessary and godly ordinances, keep your churches in good repair, whereby ye shall not only please God, and deserve his manifold blessings, but also deserve the good report of all godly people.
Wherefore if ye haue any reuerence to the seruice of God, if ye haue any common honestie, if ye haue any conscience in keeping of necessary and godly ordinaunces, kepe your churches in good repayre, wherby ye shal not onely please God, and deserue his manifolde blessinges, but also deserue the good report of all godly people.
The second point, which appertaineth to the maintenance of Gods house, is, to have it well adorned, & comely, & clean kept. Which ⟨p. 168⟩things may be the more easily performed, when the Church is well repaired. For like as men are well refreshed and comforted, when they find their houses having all things in good order, and all corners clean and sweet: So when Gods house the Church is well adorned, with places convenient to sit in, with the pulpit for the preacher, with the Lords table for the ministration of his holy supper, with the Font to Christen in, and also is kept clean, comely, and sweetly, the people is the more desirous, and the more comforted to resort thither, and to tarry there the whole time appointed them. With what earnestness, with what vehement zeal did our Saviour Christ drive the buyers 1and sellers out of the temple of God, and hurled down the tables of the changers of money, and the seats of the dove sellers, and could not abide that any man should carry a vessel through the temple? He told them that they had made his fathers house a den of thieves, partly through their superstition, hypocrisy, false worship, false doctrine, and insatiable covetousness, and partly through contempt, abusing that place, with walking and talking, with worldly matters, without all fear of God, and due reverence to that place. What dens of thieves the Churches of England have ben made by the blasphemous buying and selling the most precious body and blood of Christ in the Mass, as the world was made to believe, at Diriges, at months minds, in trentals, in abbeys and chantries, beside other horrible abuses (Gods