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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.
For, saith S. Paul, What profit, what fruit had ye at that time in those things, whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of such things is death. It is the part of a wise man, and the office of a discreet man, in such good order to dispose all his business, and to bring all his doings to so good end, that he take no foil, nor have any shame therefore. ⟨image 40⟩Ye have committed sin (saith saint Paul) ye have given over your members from one wickedness to another, and now ye be ashamed, now are ye sorry for those your misdoings: But what profit then had ye of those things, whereof you are now ashamed? This is an horror, and the greatest horror that may be, that no man can commit sin without a great burden of conscience, without great torment & disquietness of mind. Judas, when he had betrayed his master Christ,1 by and by, his conscience accused himself, and was so great a burden unto him, that to delivered and eased thereof, he went immediately and hanged himself. When Cain had slain his own brother, and committed that execrable2 murder, God said unto him, Why dost thou lower? Such a thing is sin, that whosoever committeth it, it will forthwith appear in his face, it will appear and show in his countenance. But happy is that man that soonest cometh to repentance, happy is he that is soonest sorry for his sins and misdoings. Adam, 3so soon as he had ⟨image 41⟩eaten of the forbidden fruit, & so transgressed the commandment of God, God called unto him, and said, Adam, ubies? Where art thou? He answered; I am fled away Lord, I hide my self. And why fled he away, why hid he himself from the sight of God? because he was ashamed.4 The prodigal Son spoken of in the Gospel, after he had riotously consumed his whole substance, and so brought to extreme poverty, he returned again, came home to his father, fell down before his feet, and said; O father, I have sinned against Heaven and against thee. And why said he thus? because he was ashamed. The people in the time of Daniel the Prophet,