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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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An information for them which take offence at certain places of the holy Scripture. The first part.
An information for them whiche take offence at certayne places of the holy Scripture. The first part.
The great utility and profit that Christian men and women may take (if they will) by hearing and reading the holy scriptures (dearly beloved) no heart can sufficiently conceive, much less is my tongue able with words to express. Wherefore satan our enemy, seeing the scriptures to be the very mean and right way to bring the people to the true knowledge of God, & that Christian religion is greatly furthered by diligent hearing & reading of them, he also perceiving what an hinderance & let they be to him and his kingdom, doth what he can to drive the reading of them out of Gods Church. And for that end, he hath always stirred up in one place or other, cruel tyrants, sharp persecutors, and extreme enemies unto God and his infallible trueth, to pull with violence the holy Bibles out of the peoples hands, and have most spitefully destroyed and consumed the same to ashes in the fire, pretending most untruly, that the much hearing and reading of Gods word, is an occasion of heresy and carnal liberty, and the overthrow of all good order in all well ordered ⟨p. 295⟩common weals. If to know God aright, be an occasion of evil, then must we needs grant, that the hearing, and reading of the holy scriptures, is the cause of heresy, carnal liberty, and the subversion of all good orders. But the knowledge of God, and of our selves, is so far from being an occasion of evil, that it is the readiest, yea, the only mean to bridle carnal liberty, and to kill all our fleshly affections. And the ordinary way to attain this knowledge, is with diligence to hear and read the holy scriptures. For the whole scriptures (sayeth Saint Paul) were given by the inspiration 1of God. And shall we Christian men think to learn the knowledge of God and of our selves, in any earthly mans work or writing, sooner or better then in the holy scriptures, written by the inspiration of the holy ghost? The scriptures were not brought unto us by the will of man: but holy men of God (as witnesseth Saint Peter) spake as they were moved by the holy spirit of God. The holy ghost is the schoolmaster