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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 notwithstanding (say they) we are successors to Peter, & vicars of christ: we are the church. But Christ taketh it for an argument against the Scribes & Pharisees, This did not Abraham. You are not the church, you are of your father yt devil. And Micah, My Priests teach for reward, & my Prophets prophecy for money, 1and yet they rest themselves upon the Lord and say, is not God in the middest of us? Are not we the church? Therefore night shall be unto you for a vision, and darkness shall be unto you for a divination, and the sun shall go down over the Prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Yet notwithstanding (say they) we are successors to Peter, & vicars of christ: we are ye church. But Christ taketh it for an argument against ye Scribes & Pharisees, This did not Abrahā. You are not the church, you are of your father yt diuel. And Micheas, My Priests teach for reward, & my Prophets prophecy for money, 1and yet they rest themselues vpon the Lord and saye, is not God in the middest of vs? Are not we the church? Therefore night shalbe vnto you for a vision, and darknesse shalbe vnto you for a diuination, and the sunne shal goe downe ouer the Prophets, and the day shalbe darke ouer them.
- 1Mich. 3.
I will speak nothing of the blindness of the time past, for our adversaries take that for a special hold, and call ignorance the mother of devotion: and say, Scriptures are a buckler, and a defence for heretics. Not long sithence, in this city there were certain interrogatories put forth, to enquire of such as then they called heretics, wherein one inquiry was made in this sort: Item, whether you know or have heard of any person or persons within your parish, that hath kept, or at this present doth keep, any heretical, naughty, and seditious book or