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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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Yet God delighted much that they should often resort together in a place, and therefore after his ascension they remained together in an upper chamber, sometime they entered into the Temple, sometime into the synagogues, sometime they were in prison, sometimes in their houses, sometimes in the fields. &c. And this continued so long, till the faith of Christ Jesus began to multiply in a great part of the world. Now when divers Realms were established ⟨p. 264⟩in gods true religion, and God hath given them peace and quietness: then began kings, noble men, and the people also, stirred up with a godly zeal and ferventness, to build up temples and Churches, whither the people might resort, the better to do their duty towards God, & to keep holy their sabbath day, the day of rest. And to these temples have the Christians customably used to resort from time to time, as unto meet places where they might with common consent praise and magnify Gods name, yielding him thanks for the benefits that he daily poureth upon them, both mercifully and abundantly, where they might also hear his holy word read, expounded, & preached sincerely, and receive his holy sacraments ministered unto them duly and purely. True it is that the chief and special temples of God, wherein he hath greatest pleasure, & most delighteth to dwell, are the bodies & minds of true christians, and the chosen people of God, according to the doctrine of holy scriptures, declared by Saint Paul. Know ye not (saith he) 1that ye be the temple of God, and that the spirit of God doth dwell in you? The temple of God is holy, which ye are. And again in the same Epistle: Know ye not that your body is the temple 2of the holy Ghost dwelling in you, whom you have given you of God, and that ye be not your own? Yet this notwithstanding, God doeth allow the material temple made with lime and stone (so oft as his people come together into it, to praise his holy name) to be his house, and the place where he hath promised to be present, and ⟨p. 265⟩where he will hear the prayers of them that call upon him. The which thing both Christ and his apostles, with all the rest of the holy fathers, do sufficiently declare by this: