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Seven godly and learned sermons preachedSeuen godly and learned sermons preached
Seven godly and learned sermons preached by the Reverend Father in God John Ivel, late bishop of Salisbury. Never before imprintedSeuen godly and learned sermons preached by the Reuerend Father in God Iohn Iuel, late bishop of Salisburie. Neuer before imprinted
London : Impensis G. Bishop, 1607
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.
Divers people set their minds on divers things: some in conquest, some in great power and force of men, some in heaps of money, and treasures of this world, some others, that they are able to make other men fear, and they fear nothing themselves. But all these things are vain, both conquest, power, and heaps of great treasure, are transitory, and fade away: but the man of God, that dreadeth God, and hath a delight in his Law, setteth his joy and delight in those things ⟨image 28⟩which have no end, but continue for ever. And therefore David here saith, Let all the people rejoice and be glad, in this thing alone, because thou judgest the folk righteously, and governest the nations upon the earth.
Diuers people set their minds on diuers things: some in conquest, some in great power and force of men, some in heapes of money, and treasures of this world, some others, that they are able to make other men feare, and they feare nothing themselues. But all these things are vaine, both conquest, power, and heapes of great treasure, are transitorie, and fade away: but the man of God, that dreadeth God, and hath a delight in his Law, setteth his ioy and delight in those things ⟨image 28⟩which haue no end, but continue for euer. And therefore Dauid here saith, Let all the people reioice and be glad, in this thing alone, because thou iudgest the folke righteously, and gouernest the nations vpon the earth.
Let us consider if there were a whole Christian nation brought in captivity under the Turk, in thraldom and subjection unto him, in such sort that they should never hear the Scriptures, never receive the Sacraments, never come to the church to pray, but always be where God should be despised, and his name dishonoured: consider I say with your selves, in what misery, in what wretchedness, in what great thraldom should they be. With what conscience should they be able to abide this? But if it would then please God to deliver them standing in this state, if it would please God to restore unto them his Scriptures, if it would please God that they might receive again his holy Sacraments, and might come and pray together: if God would thus much do for them, O what joy,