A03549:474
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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That doth God abhor and detest, which provoketh almighty Gods wrath other while to deprive us quite of our commodities and liberties, because we do so abuse them for matters of strife, discord, and dissension. Saint Paul blamed the Corinthians for such contentious suing among them selves, to the slander of their profession, before the enemies 1of Christs religion, saying thus unto them: Now there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why rather suffer ye not wrong? Why rather suffer ye not harm? If Saint Paul blameth the Christian men, whereof some of them for their own right, went conten jouslye so to law, commending thereby the profession of patience in a Christian man: If Christ our Saviour would have us rather 2to suffer wrong, and to turn our left cheek to him which hath smitten the right, to suffer one wrong after another, rather then by breach of charity to defend our own: In what state ⟨p. 470⟩be they before God, who do the wrong? What curses do they fall into, which by false witness defraud either their neighbour or township of his due right and just possession? which will not let to take an oath by the holy name of God, the author of all trueth, to set out a falsehood and a wrong? Know ye not (saith saint Paul) that 3the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? What shall we then win to increase a little the bounds and possessions of the earth, and loose the possession of the inheritance everlasting? Let us therefore take such heed in maintaining of our bounds and possessions, that we commit not wrong by encroaching upon other. Let us beware of sudden verdict in things of doubt. Let us well advise our selves to avouch that certainly, whereof either we have no good knowledge or remembrance, or to claim that we have no just title to. Thou shalt not (commandeth almighty God in his law) remove thy neighbours mark, which they of old time 4have set in thine inheritance. Thou shalt not (saith Solomon) remove the ancient bounds 5