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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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The second sort he calleth sinners, not such as do fall through ignorance, or of frailness, for then who should be found free? What man ever lived upon earth (Christ only excepted) but he hath sinned? The ⟨p. 309⟩just man falleth seven times, and riseth again. Though the godly do fall, yet they walk not on 1purposely in sin, they stand not still to continue and tarry in sin, they sit not down like careless men, without all fear of Gods just punishment for sin: but defying sin, through Gods great grace and infinite mercy, they rise again, and fight against sin. The Prophet then calleth them sinners whose hearts are clean turned from God, and whose whole conversation of life is nothing but sin, they delight so much in the same, that they choose continually to abide and dwell in sin. The third sort he calleth scorners, that is, a sort of men whose hearts are so stuffed with malice, that they are not contented to dwell in sin, and to lead their lives in all kind of wickedness: but also they do contemn and scorn in other, all godliness, true religion, all honesty and virtue. Of the two first sorts of men, I will not say but they may take repentance, and be converted unto God. Of the third sort, I think I may without danger of gods judgement pronounce, that never any yet converted unto God by repentance, but continued on still in their abominable wickedness, heaping up to them selves damnation, against the day of Gods inevitable judgement. Examples of such scorners, we read in the second book of Chronicles: When the good king Hezekiah, in the beginning of his 2reign, had destroyed idolatry, purged the temple, and reformed religion in his Realm, he sent messengers into every City, to gather the ⟨p. 310⟩people unto Jerusalem, to solemnize the feast of Easter, in such sort as God had appointed. The posts went from city to city, through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun. And what did the people think ye? Did they laud and praise the name of the Lord which had given them so good a king, so zealous a Prince to abolish idolatry, and to restore again Gods true religion? No, no. The scripture sayeth, The people laughed them to scorn, and mocked the kings messengers.