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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.
Was God able in those days to avenge the cruelty of Tyrants, to withstand the proud, to ⟨image 24⟩defend the humble and lowly, & shall we think that his hand is shortened? great is our God, & his power is wonderful, and there is no end of his judgements. O what leagues, and confederacies, what practises, & policies have we seen defeated? what abundance of blood hath been shed by sword, and by fire? the workers thereof are gone, the end of many of them was horrible, yet the Gospel continueth, and increaseth in all places. Aeneas Siluius, who was afterward Pope, and called Pius the second, showeth in his story of Bohemia, what great preparation was made to maintain the Church of Rome, 1and to destroy all those which professed the Gospel, whom they called Hussites and Calixtians, because they defended the receiving of the cup, as well as of the bread in the Lords Supper. Two Cardinals, the one of them Cardinal Beaufort, an English man, & Bishop of Win, the other Julianus, were sent into Germany to levy power: at whose entreaty the Emperor and States appointed three armies of men to fulfil the Popes purpose. But (saith the story) Non visum hostem fugerunt, They fled before they did see the enemy. And again the second time, Priusquam hostis ullus daretur in cospectu, foedis sima caepta fuga, They fled away with shame, before any enemy came to fight. here of one of the Cardinals Julianus, writeth thus ⟨image 24⟩to Eugenius the fourth, Nonne videbitur hic digitus Dei? Ecce, exercitus armatorum toties fugit à facie eorum, & nunc similiter Ecclesia universalis fugit: ecce, nec armis, nec literis vinci poss•t. Videbitur miraculum Dei evideter, demonstrans illos ver a sentire, nos falsa. Is not the power of God here to be seen? our armies of soldiers have fled before them many times, and now the vuiversal Church fleeth. They cannot be overcome, neither by weapons, nor by learning. This must needs appear a miracle wrought by God, to declare that their opinion is true, and ours false.
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