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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.
Christ our Saviour, when he was thus charged, made answer, Si ego in Beelzebub eiicio daemonia, filii vestri in quo e•iciunt? If I through Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? So may we say to such as this day be adversaries to this cause, and speak against us. If we be heretics that teach this doctrine, what are the ancient Fathers, the Doctors, and the Apostles that have taught the same: If they were Catholics, and have been evermore so taken, writing as they did, how is it that only we are not Catholics, ⟨image 102⟩writing & saying as they did? they shall judge on our side against you. And would God in y• greatest & specialest points of our controversies, all parts would be contented to stand to their judgment: so should all contention be soon at an end.
Christ our Sauiour, when he was thus charged, made answer, Si ego in Beelzebub eiicio daemonia, filii vestri in quo e•iciunt? If I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whō doe your children cast thē out? So may we say to such as this daye bee aduersaries to this cause, and speake agaynst vs. If we be heretikes that teach this doctrine, what are the ancient Fathers, the Doctours, and the Apostles that haue taught the same: If they were Catholiques, and haue bene euermore so taken, writinge as they dyd, howe is it that onely wee are not Catholiques, ⟨image 102⟩writing & saying as they did? they shal iudge on our side against you. And would God in y• greatest & specialest poynts of our controuersies, all parts would be contented to stand to their iudgment: so should al contention be soone at anend.
For I call Heaven and Earth to witness, and speak it before God and his holy Angels, and before the consciences of all them that speak against us, that touching the very substance of religion, we teach nothing this day, but that hath been taught before by Christ him self: set abroad by his Apostles: continued in the Primitive Church, and maintained by the old and ancient Doctors.