A03549:471
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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❧ An exhortation to be spoken to such parishes where they use their perambulation in rogation week for the oversight of the bonds and limits of their Town.
❧ An exhortation to be spoken to such parisshes where they vse their perambulation in rogation weeke for the ouersight of the bondes and limits of their Towne.
Although we be now assembled together (good Christian people) most principally to laud and thank almighty GOD for his great benefits, by beholding the ⟨p. 468⟩fields replenished with all manner fruit, to the maintenance of our corporal necessities, for our food and sustenance, and partly also to make our humble suites in prayers to his Fatherly providence to conserve the same fruits, in sending us seasonable weather, whereby we may gather in the said fruits, to that end for which his fatherly goodness hath provided them: Yet have we occasion secondarily given us in our walks on these days, to consider the old ancient bonds and limits belonging to our own Township, and to other our neighbours bordering about us, to the intent that we should be content with our own, and not contentiously strive for others, to the breach of charity, by any encroaching one upon another, or claiming one of the other, further then that in ancient right and custom our forefathers have peaceably laid out unto us for our commodity and comfort. Surely a great oversight it were in us, which be christian men in one profession of faith, daily looking for that heavenly inheritance which is bought for every one of us by the bloodshedding of our saviour Jesus Christ, to strive and fall to variance for the earthly bounds of our towns, to the disquiet of our life betwixt our selves, to the wasting of our goods by vain expenses and costs in the law. We ought to remember, that our habitation is but transitory and short in this mortal life. The more shame it were to fall out into immortal hatred among our selves, for so brittle possessions, and so to loose our eternal inheritance in heaven. It ⟨p. 469⟩