A03549:371
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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If we (my friends) consider this, that for our sins this most innocent lamb was driven to death, we shall have much more cause to bewail our selves that we were the cause of his death, then to cry out of the malice and cruelty of the Jews, which pursued him to his death. We did the deeds wherefore he was thus stricken and wounded, they were only the ministers of our wickedness. It is meet then we should step low down into our hearts, and bewail our own wretchedness and sinful living. Let us know for a certainty, that if the most dearly beloved Son of God was thus punished and stricken for the sin which he had not done him self: how much more ought we sore to be stricken for our daily and manifold sins which we commit against God, if we earnestly repent us not, and be not sorry for them? No man can love sin, which God hateth so much, and be in his favour. No man can say that he loveth Christ truly, and have his great enemy (sin I mean, the author of his death) familiar ⟨p. 358⟩and in friendship with him. So much do we love God and Christ, as we hate sin. We ought therefore to take great heed, that we be not favourers thereof, least we be found enemies to God, and traitors to Christ. For not only they which nailed Christ upon the cross, are his tormentors and crucifiers: but all they (saith saint Paul) crucify again the Son of God, as much as is in them, which do commit 1vice and sin, which brought him to his death. 2If the wages of sin be death, and death everlasting: Surely it is no small danger to be in service thereof. If we live after the flesh, and after the sinful lusts thereof, saint Paul threateneth, 3yea almighty God in saint Paul threateneth, that we shall surely dye. We can none otherwise 4live to God, but by dying to sin. If Christ be in us, then is sin dead in us: and if the spirit of God be in us, which raised Christ from death to life, so shall the same spirit raise us to the resurrection of everlasting life. But if sin rule 5and reign us, then is God, which is the fountain of all grace and virtue, departed from us: then hath the devil & his ungracious spirit, rule and dominion in us. And surely if in such miserable fiat we dye, we shall not rise to life, but fall down to death & damnation, & that without end.