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The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
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.
Augustin of his tim, saith thus: Non est opus loquutione cum oramus, ⟨p. 70⟩id est, sonantibus verbis, nisi forte sicut Sacerdotes faciunt, significandae mentis suae causa, non ut deus, sed ut homines audiant. We need not, saith he, to use words, or sound of voice, when we pray onlesse it be, as the Priests do, to declare their meaning, not to the intent that god may therefore hear them, but that they may be heard of men.
Augustin of his tym, saith thus: Non est opus loquutione cum oramus, ⟨p. 70⟩id est, sonantibus verbis, nisi forte sicut Sacerdotes faciunt, significādae mētis suae causa, non vt deus, sed vt homines audiant. We nede not, saith he, to vse words, or sound of voice, whē we pray onlesse it be, as the Priestes do, to declare their meaning, not to the entēt that god may therfore heare them, but that they may be heard of men.
But, because ye be a doctor of law, I would not have you forget Justinian the Emperor, the first compiler of your laws. He, if ye be remembered, commanded the Bishops that they should set forth the common prayers in open voice, and that, as he sayeth: Ut maiori devotion audientium animi efferantur. That is, that the minds of the heares may be stricken with more devotion. He thought then that y• ⟨image 72⟩understanding of y• prayers should enkindle devotion in the hearts of y• hearers. For I believe, he had never heard say, that ignorance should be the cause of true devotion, as ye boldly avouched in the disputation at westminster, in the hearing, and wondering, of the most part of the honourable, and worshipful of this realm. I know not by what secrete Revelation ye learned this first. For your own Counsels say. Ignorantia mater est cuuctorum errorū. That is to say, ignorance is y mother of all manner errors. And the same words ye have alleged in your own decrees. Distin. 38. & are very agreeable unto Christs words in the Gospel. Erratis nescientes Scripturas: ye are in error, because ye understand not the Scriptures.