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Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse
Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls cross, by the reverend father John Jewel late Bishop of Salisbury. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made upon that matter, in his cathedral church at SalisburyCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse, by the reuerend father Iohn Ievvel late Bishop of Salisburie. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made vpon that matter, in his cathedrall church at Salisburie
London: printed by Christopher Barker, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yet some men of late time have beaten into your heads, y• these & many other like things ⟨image 42⟩have come by succession, even from the primitive Church, and from the Apostles. But so the conjurers and Sorcerers say, that their books of conjuration and sorcery came from Moses, from Enoch, and from Abel. Plutarch writeth, that Theseus, Romulus, Hercules, and other like Princely gentlemen, indeed were Bastards, and were be gotten of fathers of very low degree: but after they came into honour, and estimation, the people (because they knew not whose sons they were) thought they had come from heaven, and therefore they called them the sons of the gods.
Yet some men of late time haue beaten into your heades, y• these & many other like thinges ⟨image 42⟩haue come by succession, euen frō the primatiue Churche, and from the Apostles. But so the coniurers and Sorcerers saye, that their books of coniuration and sorcerie came from Moses, from Enoch, and from Abel. Plutarche writeth, that Theseus, Romulus, Hercules, and other like Princely gentlemen, indeede were Bastardes, and were be gotten of fathers of very lowe degree: but after they came into honour, and estimation, the people (because they knew not whose sōnes they were) thought they had come from heauen, and therfore they called them the sonnes of the gods.
Even so, these things that I have here reported, notwithstanding in deed they are base borne, yet because they have stolen into the Church and have been had in honour, some men have taught you, they have come even from heaven, and therefore they have fathered them upon Christ, and his Apostles. But in the mean season, they have not dealt justly with you, but have done wrong both to Christ and to his Apostles. Hierome writing upon Aggeus, sayeth: Quae absque authoritate & testimoniis Scripturarum quasi traditione Apostolica