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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 Promised to you to declare that all spiritual gifts & graces cometh specially from God. Let us consider the trueth of this matter, ⟨p. 456⟩and hear what is testified first of the gift of faith, the first entry into the Christian life, without the which no man can please God. For S. Paul confesseth it plainly to be Gods gift, saying, 1Faith is the gift of God. And again saint Peter saith, It is of Gods power that ye be kept 2through faith to salvation. It is of the goodness of god that we falter not in our hope unto him. It is verily gods work in us, the charity wherewith we love our brethren. If after our fall we repent, it is by him that we repent, which reacheth forth his merciful hand to raise us up. If any will we have to rise, it is he that preventeth our will, & disposeth us thereto. If after contrition we feel our conscience at peace with god, through remission of our sin, and so be reconciled again to his favour, and hope to be his children & inheritors of everlasting life: who worketh these great miracles in us, our worthiness, our deservings & endeavours, our wits, and virtue? Nay verily. Saint Paul will not suffer flesh and clay to presume to such arrogance, & therefore saith, All is of God, which hath reconciled us to him self by Jesus Christ. For God was in Christ when he reconciled the world unto him self. GOD the father of all mercy, wrought this high benefit unto us, not by his own person: but by a mean, by no less mean then his only beloved son, whom he spared not from any pain & travail that might do us good. For upon him he put our sins, upon him he made our ransom, him he made the mean betwixt us & him self, whose mediation was so ⟨p. 457⟩acceptable to GOD the father, through his profound and perfect obedience, that he toke his act for a full satisfaction of all our disobedience & rebellion, whose righteousness he toke to way against our sins, whose redemption he would have stand against our damnation. In this point, what have we to muse within our selves good friends? I think no less then that which saint Paul said, in the remembrance of this wonderful goodness of God, Thanks be to almighty 3