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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.
I will now speak briefly of the sacraments in several, & leave all idle & vain questions, and only lay open so much as is needful, & profitable for you to know. Baptism therefore is our regeneration or new birth, whereby we are borne a new in Christ, & are made the sons of God, & heirs of the kingdom of heaven, it is a sacrament of the remission of sins, and of that washing which we have in the blood of Christ. ⟨image 138⟩We are all borne the children of wrath, and have our part in the offence of Adam. S. Paul saith. By one man sin entered into the world. August. 1saith, Non dixit, veniet super eum, sed manet super eum. Respexit originem &c. Christ said not, it shall come upon him, but it abideth on him: He had regard to our offspring, when he saith, the wrath of God abideth on him. Upon which when the Apostle also looked, he said, and we our selves also were sometimes the children of wrath. That which in Adam was imputed to his offence, & not to be of nature, is now in us, which are come of Adam, become natural. Therefore saith the Prophet, Behold, I was borne in iniquity, and in sin 2hath my mother conceived me. So that we all have cause to cry out & moan with Saint Paul, I see another law in my members rebelling 3against the law of my mind, & leading me captive unto the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Here of speaketh our saviour, That which 4is born of the flesh is flesh: & that which is borne of the spirit, is spirit. And for this cause, saith he, except a man be borne of the water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
I wil now speake briefly of the sacramentes in seueral, & leaue all idle & vaine questions, and onely lay open so much as is needful, & profitable for you to know. Baptisme therefore is our regeneration or newe birth, whereby wee are borne a new in Christ, & are made the sonnes of God, & heires of the kingdome of heauen, it is a sacrament of the remission of sinnes, and of that washing which we haue in the blood of Christ.