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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.
And, albeit there is much likeness between the rage and fury of hypocrites, and the godly zeal of good men: for either are hot, either are vehement, either wisheth redress: yet this is an evident difference: godly zeal is tempered & seasoned with charity, the ungodly is joined with bitterness & revenge: the godly seeketh to win, the ungodly to kill and to destroy. The ungodly have their hands full of blood, they kill the Prophets, they say, We have a law, and by our law he must die. They say, Come, let us destroy them, that they be no more a nation.
And, albeit there is much likenesse between the rage and fury of hypocrites, and the godlye zeale of good men: for either are hot, either are vehement, either wisheth redresse: yet this is an euidēt differēce: godly zeale is tempered & seasoned with charity, the vngodly is ioyned with bitternes & reuenge: ye godly seeketh to winne, the vngodly to kill and to destroy. The vngodly haue their handes full of blood, they kill the Prophets, they say, We haue a lawe, and by our lawe he must die. They say, Come, let vs destroy them, that they be no more a nation.
Let not the name of Israel be had any more in remembrance. They burn the holy books of the Scriptures, as did Aza and Antiochus. They say, ransack it, pull it down, case it to ⟨image 69⟩the foundation, let nor one be left alive. They dig up the bodies of the dead, out of their graves. They show their cruelty upon the bones and ashes, which were long before buried, and well nigh consumed. It grieveth them when they lack upon whom they may whet their blood thirsty and cruel zeal. It grieveth them, no one thing else so much, that they did not work surely, and cut up the root. Such is the zeal of the ungodly. Even such a zeal as was in Nero, in Caligula, of whom it is reported, he wished that all the Romans had but one neck, that he might cut off all their beads at one stroke: as was in Herod, in Annas. and Caiaphas, and the like murderers.