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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.
Now remaineth the last part that I have taken in hand to speak of: that is of the manner of the building. Where of, because y• matter of it self is long, and I scanted of time, I will speak two words, and so make an end. And what better way can be devised to restore ⟨image 56⟩Christs Church, then that we see used by Christ himself: Christ, when he was apposed of the Pharisees in the case of divorce, whether it were lawful for a man to put away his wise upon any kind of matter, and to marry another, called them back to the scriptures, Ab initio non fuit sic. Scriptum est. From the beginning it was not so: It is written. And so in other places in like matters, he saith, scriptum est: and ever returneth them to the scriptures. The same order used Esaias: Ad Legem, & ad Prophetas: Have recourse to the Law & the Prophets. So Josiah, so Hezekiah, so Jehoshaphat reformed the Temple of God when it was polluted, according to the pattern of the Scriptures. For as Tertullian saith, Peraeque ad universas 1haereses jam hinc praeiudicatum est, idesse verum quodcunque primum, id esse adulterum quodcū que posterius. By this rule, we may equally prescribe against all heresies, that is true, y• was first appointed, that is false that was afterward devised. Saint Augustine saith, In Seripturis didicimus Christum, in Scripturis didicimus 2Ecclesiam: has Scripturas communiter habemus, quare non in eis & Christum & Ecclesiam communiter retinemus? In the Scriptures we have learned Christ: in the Scriptures we have learned the Church: these Scriptures we have indifferently between us, why do we not after one sort hold ⟨image 56⟩Christ and the Church by them. And again, where he writeth against Petilian a Donatist, Non audiamus, haec dico, haec dicis: 3sed audiamus, haec dicit Dominus. Sunt certi libri Dominici, quorum authoritati utrique consentimus, utrique credimus, utrique seruimus: Ibi quaeramus Ecclesiam, ibi discutiamus causam nostram. Let us not hear, thus I say, thus thou sayest: but let us hear, Thus sayeth the Lord. There be certain books of our Lord, unto the authority whereof each part agreeth, each part believeth, each part yieldeth: there let us seek for the Church. thereby let us examine and try our matters. This is the Rock upon which Christ hath built his Church: against this Rock the gates of Hell shall not prevail.