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…

I Am purposed this day (good devout Christian people) to declare unto you the most deserved praise & commendation of almighty God, not only in the consideration of the marvellous creation of this world, or for conservation and governance thereof, wherein his great power and wisdom might excellently appear, to move us to honour and dread him: but most specially in consideration of his liberal & large goodness, which he daily bestoweth on us his reasonable creatures, for whose sake he made the whole universal world, with all the commodities and goods therein. Which his singular goodness well and diligently remembered on our part, should move us (as duty is) again with hearty affection to love him, and with word and deed to praise him, and serve him all the days of our life. And to this matter, being so worthy to entreat of, and so profitable for you to hear, I trust I shall not need with much circumstance of words to stir you to give your attendance to hear what shall be said. Only I would wish your affection inflamed in secrete wise within your self, to raise up some motion of thanks giving ⟨p. 456⟩to the goodness of almighty God, in every […]che point as shall be opened by my declaration particularly unto you. For else what shall it avail us to hear and know the great goodness of God toward us, to know that what soever is good proceedeth from him, as from the principal fountain and the only author, or to know that what soever is sent from him must needs be good and wholesome: if the hearing of such matter moveth us no further but to know it only? What availed it the wise men of the world to have a knowledge of the power and divinity of God, by the secrete inspiration of him: where they did not honour and glorify him in their knowledges as God? What praise was it to them, by the consideration of the creation of the world, to behold his goodness: and yet were not thankful to him again for his creatures? What other thing deserved this blindness and forgetfulness of them at Gods hands, but utter forsaking of him? and so forsaken of God, they could not but fall into extreme ignorance and error. And although they much esteemed them selves in their wits and knowledge, and gloried in their wisdom: yet vanished they away blindly, in their thoughts became fools, & perished in their folly.

I Am purposed this day (good deuout Christian people) to declare vnto you the most deserued praise & commendation of almighty God, not only in the consyderation of the marueylous creation of this worlde, or for conseruation and gouernaunce thereof, wherein his great power and wysedome might excellentlye appeare, to moue vs to honour and dread him: but moste specially in consyderation of his liberall & large goodnes, whiche he daylye bestoweth on vs his reasonable creatures, for whose sake he made the whole vniuersall worlde, with all the commodities and goods therein. Which his singuler goodnes well and diligently remembred on our part, shoulde moue vs (as dutie is) agayne with hartye affection to loue him, and with word and deede to praise him, and serue him all the dayes of our lyfe. And to this matter, being so worthye to entreate of, and so profitable for you to heare, I trust I shal not neede with much circumstaunce of words to stirre you to geue your attendance to heare what shalbe said. Only I would wish your affection inflamed in secrete wyse within your selfe, to rayse vp some motion of thankes geuing