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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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I have the knowledge of all the […]less of the air, the beauty of the field is my handy work, mine is the whole circuit of the world, & all the plenty that is in it. And again by the Prophet Jeremiah: Thinkest thou that I 1am a God of the place nigh me (sayeth the Lord) and not a God far of? Can a man hide him self in so secrete a corner, that I shall not see him? Do not I fulfil and replenish both heaven & earth, saith the Lord? which of these two should be most believed? Fortune, whom they paint to be blind of both eyes, ever unstable & unconstant in her wheel, in whose hands they say these things be? Or God, in whose hand and power these things be in deed, who for his truth and constance was yet never reproved? For his sight looketh through heaven and earth, and seeth all things presently with his eyes. Nothing is to dark or hidden from his knowledge, not the privy thoughts of mens minds. Trueth it is, that of God is all riches, all power, all authority, ⟨p. 449⟩all health, wealth, & prosperity, of the which we should have no part without his liberal distribution, and except it came from him above. David first testifieth of richesse and possessions: If thou givest, good luck they shall gather, and 2if thou openest thy hand, they shall be full of goodness: but if thou turnest thy face, they shall be troubled. And Solomon saith, It is the blessing 3of the Lord that maketh rich men. To this agreeth that holy woman Anne, where she saith 4in her song: It is the Lord that maketh the poor, and maketh the rich, it is he that promoteth & pulleth down, he can raise a needy man from his misery, & from the dunghill, he can lift up a poor personage to sit with princes, and have the seat of glory: for all the coasts of the earth be his. Now if any man will ask, What shall it avail us to know that every good gift, as of nature and fortune (so called) and every perfect gift, as of grace, concerning the soul, to be of God, and that it is his gift only? Forsooth for many causes is it convenient for us to know it. For so shall we know (if we confess the trueth) who ought justly to be thanked for them. Our pride shall be thereby abated, perceiving naught to come of our selves but sin and vice: if any goodness be in us, to refer all laud & praise for the same to almighty God.