A03549:476
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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No doubt of it (saith David) better is a little truly gotten to the righteous man, then the innumerable riches of 1the wrongful man. Let us flee therefore (good people) all wrong practises in getting, maintaining, and defending our possessions, lands, and live•odes, our bounds and liberties, remembering that such possessions be all under Gods revengeaunce. But what do we speak of house and land? Nay it is said in scripture, that God in his ire doeth root up whole kingdoms for wrongs and oppressions, & doth translate kingdoms from one nation to another, for unrighteous dealing, for wrongs and riches gotten by deceit. This is the practise of the holy one (saith Daniel) to the intent that living men may know, that the most hie hath power on the kingdoms 2of men, and giveth them to whom soever he will. Furthermore, what is the cause of penury and scarceness, of dearth and famine? any other thing but a token of Gods ire, revenging ⟨p. 473⟩our wrongs and injuries one done to another? Ye have sown much (upbraideth God by his prophet Aggei) and yet bring in little, ye eat, but ye be not satisfied, ye drink, but ye be 3not filled, ye cloth your selves, but ye be not warm, and he that earneth his wages, putteth it in a bottomless purse: ye look for much increase, but lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home (into your barns) I did blow it away, saith the Lord. O consider therefore the ire of God against gleaners, gatherers, and encroachers upon other mens lands and possessions. It is lamentable to see in some places, how greedy men use to plough and grate upon their neighbours land, that lieth next them, how covetous men now a days plough up so nigh the common balks and walks, which good men before time made the greater and broader, partly for the commodious walk of his neighbour, partly for the better shack in harvest time, to the more comfort of his poor neighbours cattle. It is a shame to behold the insatiableness of some covetous persons in their doings: that where their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient beer balk, to carry the corps to the Christian sepulture, how men pinch at such beer balks, which by long use and custom ought to be inviolably kept for that purpose.