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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.
The Turks & the Jews at this day, & others ⟨image 113⟩the enemies of the cross of Christ, think there is no other true religion but theirs: & in it they are wonderful zealous, and stand in it unto death: no persuasion nor force can remove them. When the people of Ephesus heard of the 1preaching of Paul, they raised uproar, and filled the City full of tumult: they caught Gaius and Aristarchus men of Macedonia, and Pauls companions in his journey, and would have slain them: they made an outcry, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians, she is a goddess, she hath made Heaven and Earth, we have put our trust in her, we will call upon her, and she will hear us. Christ she weth his Disciples, 2The brother shall betray the brother to death & the father the son, & the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die, and ye shall be hated of all men for my Name. For zeal to their GOD, the Priests of Baal cut themselves with knives 3and lancers. Through zeal, many fathers slew their own children, and burnt them quick in fire, in the honour of the Idol Moloch. Circumcelliones, which were a sort of Heretics sprung out of the Donatists about 420. years after Christ, through zeal murdered one another, they threw them selves down from high rocks and destroyed them selves, and thought that, the only way to please God: so hot and fervent was their devotion. The ⟨image 114⟩children of light have seldom suffered more, or more willingly, or with more affiance, then the children of darkness: so strived they for God, but against God: and abused his name against him self, and wittingly and willingly went down to Hell. They have great zeal and earnest desire of the glory of GOD, but not according to knowledge. They contented them selves with that they had received of their Fathers, & would seek no further they thought they did serve GOD, but they blasphemed the Name of the Son of GOD. In such sort did God suffer them to walk in the blindness of their heart. In the latter day many shall say 4