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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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Think thou seest his body stretched out in length upon the cross, his head crowned with sharp thorn, his hands & his feet pierced with nails, his heart opened with a long spear, his flesh rent and torn with whips, his brows sweating water and blood. Think thou hearest him now crying in an intolerable agony to his father, & saying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. Couldest thou behold this woeful sight, or hear this mournful voice without tears, considering that he suffered all this, not for any desert of his own, but only for the grievousness of thy sins? O that mankind should put the everlasting Son of God to such pains. O that we should be the occasion of his death, & the only cause of his condemnation. May we not justly cry woe worth the time that ever we sinned? O my brethren, let this image of Christ crucified, be always printed in our hearts, let it stir us up to the hatred of sin, & provoke our minds to the earnest love of almighty God. For why? Is not sin think you, a grievous thing in his ⟨p. 374⟩sight, seeing for the transgressing of Gods precept in eating of one apple, he condemned all the world to perpetual death, and would not be pacified, but only with the blood of his own Son? True, yea most true is that saying of David: Thou O Lord, hatest all them that work iniquity, neither shall the wicked and evil man 1dwell with thee. By the mouth of his prophet Isaiah, he crieth mainly out against sinners and saith: •o be unto you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with cart 2ropes. Did not God give a plain token how greatly he hated & abhorred sin, when he drowned 3all the world save only eight persons, when he destroyed Sodom & Gomorra with fire and brimstone, when in three days space he killed 4with pestilence threescore and ten thousand for Davids offence, when he drowned Pharaoh and all his host in the red sea, when he turned Nebuchadnezzar 5the king into the form of a brute beast, creeping upon all four, when he suffered