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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.
Even so, let us cast back our eyes, & make a view of the Church. Loth I am to speak of it: Yet it is needful to say somewhat thereof, that we way rejoice in our deliverance. All things were done in a strange tongue: the priest spake, and the people heard they knew not what. No man could say Amen to their prayers. The matters were such, that he might be reckoned happy which heard them not. They abused the Church of God with vain fables. If you doubt hereof read their Legends and festivals. They know this, they acknowledge it. It might well be spoken of them which Hillary 1said, Sanctiores sunt aures populi quam corda ⟨image 125⟩sacerdotum The ears of the people are more holy, then the hearts of the Priests.
Euen so, let vs cast backe our eies, & make a view of the Church. Loth I am to speake of it: Yet it is nedefull to say somewhat thereof, that we way reioyce in our deliueraunce. All thinges were done in a strang tounge: the priest spake, and the people hearde they knewe not what. No man coulde say Amen to their prayers. The matters were such, that he might be reconed happie which heard them not. They abused the Church of God with vaine fables. If you doubt hereof rede their Legendes and festiuals. They know this, they acknowlege it. It might well be spoken of them which Hillarie 1said, Sanctiores sunt aures populi quam corda ⟨image 125⟩sacerdotum The eares of the people are more holy, then the hearts of the Priests.
- 1Hilar. con. Auxentisi.
I beseech you, mark the form and fashion of their prays. To the blessed virgin, they said, Ave Maria, salus, et consolatrix vivorum et mortuorum, Haile Mary, the saviour & comforter, both of quick & dead. And again, O gloriosa virgo Maria, libera nos ab omni malo, et a paenis inferni. O glorious virgin Mary, deliver us from all evil, & from the pains of hell. Again, Monstra te esse matrem, show that thou art a mother. They call her, Regina Coeli, domina mundi, unica spes miserorum, Queen of heaven, Lady of y world, the only hope of them that be in misery. It were tedious, and unpleasant to recite the like their blasphemies. Howe did these men account of the cross and passion of Christ? What leave they to be wrought by the price of his blood? To speak nothing of the multitude of their intercessors and patrons, of their false miracles, of their deceivable merits and works of supererogation: how foul a kind of Idolatry was it, to worship the image with the selfsame honour, wherewith they worship the thing it self, that is represented by the Image? As, if the thing it self be worshipped with godly honour, then must the Image thereof be worshipped with godly honour.