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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.
Therefore doeth S. August. give us good and wholesome advertisements, thus he writeth to Bonifacius: Unless sacraments had a certain 1likeness of the things, of which they be sacraments, then indeed they were no sacraments. And of this likeness oftentimes, they bear the names of yt things themselves, that are represented by the sacraments. And again, In sacraments we must consider, not what they be, 2(in substance & nature) but what they signify. Again he saith, It is a dangerous matter, & a servitude of the soul, to take the sign in ⟨image 152⟩stead of the thing that is signified. And again, if it be a speech that commandeth, either by 3forbidding an horrible wickedness, or requiring that which is profitable, it is not figurative: but if it seem to require horrible wickedness, & to forbid that is good & profitable, it is spoken figuratively. Except ye eat (saith Christ) the flesh of the Son of man, & drink his blood, ye have no life in you. He seemeth to require the doing of that which is horrible, or most wicked: it is a figure therefore commanding us to communicate with the passion of Christ, & comfortably, & profitably to lay up in our remembrance, that his flesh was crucified, & wounded for us. In another place, he saith, It is a more horrible thing to eat mans flesh, than to kill it: & to drink mans blood, than 4it is to shed it. Again he saith, We must beware, that we take not a figurative speech according to the letter: for thereto it pertaineth, that the Apostle saith, the letter killeth, Besides that which hath been showed you out of the godly learned old fathers, how they have expounded these words: who soever will advisedly consider these principal sentences, or rather rules of Saint Augustine, shall be holpen much, and directed to the due and Catholic construction and meaning of them.
Therefore doeth S. August. giue vs good and wholesome aduertisements, thus hee writeth to Bonifacius: Vnlesse sacraments had a certain 1