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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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For we must be earnestly sorry for our sins, and unfeignedly lament & be wail that we have by them so grievously offended our most bounteous and merciful God, who so tenderly loved us, that he gave his only begotten son to dye a most bitter death, & to shed his dear hart blood for our redemption and deliverance. And verily this inward sorrow and grief being conceived in the heart for the heinousness of sin, if it be earnest and unfeigned, is as a sacrifice to God, as the holy prophet David doth testify, saying: A sacrifice to God is a troubled spirit, 1a contrite and broken heart, O Lord thou wilt not despise. But that this may take place in us, we must be diligent to read and hear the scriptures and word of God, which most lively do ⟨p. 526⟩paint out before your eyes our natural uncleanliness, and the enormity of our sinful life. For unless we have a through feeling of our sins, how can it be that we should earnestly be sorry for them? Afore David did hear the word of the Lord by the mouth of the prophet Nathan, 2what heaviness I pray you was in him for the adultery and murder that he had committed? So that it might be said right well, that he slept in his own sin. We read in the Acts of the Apostles, that when the people had heard the 3Sermon of Peter, they were compunct and pricked in their hearts. Which thing would never have ben, if they had not heard that wholesome Sermon of Peter. They therefore that have no mind at all neither to read, nor yet to hear Gods word, there is but small hope of them that they will as much as once set their feet, or take hold upon the first staff or steppe of this ladder: but rather will sink deeper and deeper into the bottomless pit of perdition. For if at any time through the remorse of their conscience, which accuseth them, they feel any inward grief, sorrow, or heaviness for their sins, forasmuch as they want the salve and comfort of Gods word, which they do despise, it will be unto them rather a mean to bring them to utter desperation then otherwise. The second is, an unfeigned confession and acknowledging of our sins unto God, whom by them we have so grievously offended, that if he should deal with us according to his justice, we do deserve a thousand hells, if there could be so many.