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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, whatsoever lacketh either of these, it is no Sacrament. Therefore are not the other five, which are so reckoned, and make up the number of seven, in due signification and right meaning, taken for sacraments. For, in such sort as these are called sacraments, that is, because they signify some holy thing, we shall find a great number of things, which the godly learned Fathers have called Sacraments, and yet I trow, we must not hold them as sacraments ordained to be kept and continued in the church: for then should there be not seven, but seventeen sacraments.
Nowe, whatsoeuer lacketh eyther of these, it is no Sacrament. Therefore are not the other fiue, which are so reckoned, and make vp the number of seuen, in due signification and right meaning, taken for sacraments. For, in such sort as these are called sacramentes, that is, because they signifie some holy thing, wee shall finde a great number of thinges, which the godly learned Fathers haue called Sacramentes, and yet I trow, we must not holde them as sacraments ordeined to be kept and continued in the church: for then shoulde there bee not seuen, but seuenteene sacramentes.
S. Bernard calleth the washing of the Apostles feet a sacrament, Ablutio pedum sacramentū 1est quotidianorum peccatorum. The washing ⟨image 138⟩of feet, is the Sacrament of daily sins. So Leo calleth the cross of Christ a sacrament. Crux Christi quae saluandis est impensa fidelibus, & sacramentū 2est, & exemplū The cross of Christ, which was given to save the faithful, is both a Sacrament, & also an example. Tertullian calleth the whole state of Christian faith, Religionis Christianae Sacramentum. The sacrament 3of Christian religion. S. Hillary in divers places saith, Sacramentum orationis, sacramentum esuritionis, sacramentum sitis, sacramentū fletus, sacramentū scripturarū. The sacrament of prayer, the sacrament of fasting, the sacrament of thirst, the sacrament of weeping, the Sacrament of the scriptures. Thus much for the nun ber, that by the institution of Christ, there are but two sacraments, as Cardinal Bessarion confesseth, Haec duo sola Sacramenta in Evangelijs manifesté