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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.
O merciful God, shall we say, that all the whole world of the Christians, ever from Christs time, until the late time of these later Fathers, was in a continual schism? Shall we say that S. Augustine, S. Ambrose, and other old fathers, were schismatics: Shall we say that Christ and his Apostles taught us schisms: or that was once true, and Christian doctrine-is it now become a schism? Is the Church now within five hundred years become Catholic: and was Christs church, and the Apostles church, and the Doctors church not Catholic: O Lord, if we be deceived, thou hast deceived us: for if in these doings we be schismatics, for having prayer in a known tongue, or for communion under both kinds, or for the marriage of Priests and Ministers, where as thou gavest thy communion under both kinds, and didst choose such as were married to be thy Apostles, and didst pray in the common and vulgar tongue, as also thy Apostle Paul taught us to do: If this be schism, we are become schismatics, for following thine example. and that ordinance which thou hast left unto thy Church.
O mercifull God, shall wee saye, that all the whole world of the Christians, euer from Christes time, vntil the late time of these later Fathers, was in a continual schisme? Shal we say that S. Augustine, S. Ambrose, and other old fathers, were schismatiques: Shall wee say that Christ and his Apostles taught vs schismes: or that was once true, and Christian doctrine-is it nowe become a schisme? Is the Churche nowe within fiue hundreth yeeres become Catholike: and was Christes church, and the Apostles churche, and the Doctours church not Catholike: O Lord, if we be deceiued, thou hast deceiued vs: for if in these doings we be schismatikes, for hauing prayer in a knowen tongue, or for communion vnder both kindes, or for the mariage of Priestes and Ministers, where as thou gauest thy communion vnder both kindes, and didst choose such as were married to be thy Apostles, and didst pray in the common and vulgar tongue, as also thy Apostle Paule taught vs to do: If this be schisme, we are become schismatiques, for folowing thine example. and that ordinance which thou hast left vnto thy Church.
But S. Hillary showeth, how we shall be sure to know an heresy or a schisme. Hee est regula