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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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This therefore shall not satisfy and content all mens minds: but as some are carnal, so they will still continue, & abuse the scriptures carnally, to their greater damnation. The unlearned and unstable (saith ⟨p. 312⟩saint Peter) pervert the holy scriptures to their own destruction. Jesus Christ, as (saint Paul 1saith) is to the Jews an offence, to the Gentiles foolishness: But to Gods children, as well 2of the Jews as of the Gentiles, he is the power and wisdom of God. The holy man Simeon sayeth, 3that he is set forth for the fall and rising again of many in Israel. As Christ Jesus is a fall to the reprobate, which yet perish through their own default: So is his word, yea the whole book of God, a cause of damnation unto them, through their incredulity. And as he is a rising up to none other then those which are Gods children by adoption: So is his word, yea the whole scripture, the power of God to salvation to them only that do believe it. Christ him self, the Prophets before him, the apostles after him, all the true ministers of Gods holy word, yea every word in Gods book, is unto the reprobate, the savour of death unto death. Christ Jesus, the prophets, the apostles, and all the true ministers of his word, yea every jot and title in the holy scripture, have ben, is, and shall be for evermore, the savour of life unto eternal life, unto all those whose hearts God hath purified by true faith. Let us earnestly take heed, that we make no jesting stock of the books of holy scriptures. The more obscure and dark the sayings be to our understanding, the further let us think our selves to be from God and his holy spirit, who was the author of them. Let us with more reverence endeavour our selves to search out the wisdom hidden in the outward ⟨p. 313⟩bark of the scripture. If we can not understand the sense and the reason of the saying, yet let us not be scorners, jesters, and deriders, for that is the uttermost token and show of a reprobate, of a plain enemy to God and his wisdom. They be not idle fables to jest at, which God doth seriously pronounce, and for serious matters let us esteem them. And though in sundry places of the scriptures, be set out divers rites and ceremonies, oblations, & sacrifices: