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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.
Others have cut off their captains, and all such as might seem able to lead the people, and to move rebellion. Some have killed their male children. Some dissolved the old Laws, and gave them new. Others have forbidden banquets & feasts, and all other conventicles or assemblies, to make them strange one to another. Others have purposely sowed and maintained factions, & set city against city, surname against surname, blood against blood, that no man might safely trust another. Some have devised oaths and bands, of conscience: some have devised laws martial, & ⟨image 26⟩other cruelty: some have transported, and carried away the whole people, man, woman, and child: as Nebuchadnezzar did the Jews into Babylon, & put others in their place. By these, and such other like ways, as much as wisdom and policy could devise, they thought to keep countries and nations in obedience.
Others haue cut off their captaines, and al such as might seem able to leade the people, and to moue rebellion. Some haue killed their male children. Some dissolued the old Lawes, and gaue them new. Others haue forbidden banquets & feasts, and al other conuenticles or assēblies, to make them strange one to another. Others haue purposely sowed and mainteined factions, & set city against citie, surname against surname, blood against blood, that no man might safely trust another. Some haue deuised othes and bands, of conscience: some haue deuised lawes martial, & ⟨image 26⟩other crueltie: some haue transported, and caried away the whole people, man, woman, and child: as Nabuchodonozor did the Iewes into Babilō, & put others in their place. By these, and such other like wayes, as much as wisedom and pollicie could deuise, they thought to keepe countries and nations in obedience.
But, as touching our spiritual Jericho, Joshua suffered nothing to stand, he burnt houses, and palaces, and killed man, woman, & child, & cattle without mercy, altogether. For so God had given him in commandment, and so is it often written of him, that where the Lord gave any people into his hands, he left nothing remaining, no, were it never so little. Of this policy Moses speaketh. If you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those