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A sermon made in latin in Oxford in the reign of King Edward the…A sermon made in latine in Oxenforde in the raigne of King Edwarde the…
A sermon made in latin in Oxford in the reign of King Edward the sixth, / by the learned and godly father John Ivel, late Bishop of Salisbury, and translated into English, by R.V. Dedicated unto the Bishop of London, as appeareth in the Commentary of Ma. Calvin, upon the Galatians, in English.A sermon made in latine in Oxenforde in the raigne of King Edwarde the sixt, / by the learned and godly father Iohn Iuel, late Bishop of Sarisburie, and translated into Englishe, by R.V. Dedicated vnto the Bishop of London, as appeareth in the Commentarie of Ma. Caluine, vpon the Galathians, in Englishe.
London: printed by Thomas Purfoote, 1581
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.
Men say, that they can sacrifice christ himself again every day, not ⟨image 15⟩[…] ⟨image 15⟩[…] ⟨image 16⟩only for remembrance sake, but in very deed, and that in infinite places. Christ saith, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve: Men worship the Eucharist, alack the while, being neither Lord nor God, but a sacrament of the Lord, without authority of the scriptures, or example of the Apostles, and that as God. For, by the living God I beseech you, consider in your minds brethren, who ever, I will not say of the Apostles, but of the holy fathers hath either worshipped the Sacrament himself, or hath showed it forth to be worshipped of others? I see that I speak these things not before the common sort of men, but before them who are profoundly learned, I appeal to all your consciences, I will use in this matter your own testimony. Christ hath commanded the Sacrament to be delivered whole: Men have torn the same after a miserable manner, Christ willed that nothing should be added to his law: Men do not only add many things, but the same they prefer before the word of God. But why should I reckon up more? ⟨image 16⟩This only will I speak, and that in a word, they which brought in transubstantiations, masses, calling upon saints, sole life, purgatory, images, vows, trifles, follies, babbles, into the Church of God, have delivered new things, and which the scriptures never heard of. Whatsoever they cry or crake, they bring not a jot out of the word of God. And these, as I have said, are the things wherewith the Church of God at these days are disquieted. Upon these lieth the watch and ward of the Church. These they honour in stead of the scriptures, and force them to the people in stead of the word of God: upon these: men suppose their salvation, & the sum of religion to be grounded. And that which is much more grievous, notwithstanding at this present by the great goodness of God, religion is restored almost to her former dignity and light, yet poor and pitiful souls they set great store by these things, they to them again, and teach them, as though without them the Church could not be in safety. O if the word of the Lord might be heard, among so many ⟨image 17⟩