A04482:693
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.
For a redress hereof he calleth them back to the first original, & to the institution of Christ from whence they were fallen▪ For I, (saith he▪) being amongst you delivered you none other thing than that I had received of the Lord. ⟨image 124⟩That thing he thought meetest for you. And therefore with the same ought you also to be contented.
For a redresse hereof he calleth them back to the first originall, & to the institution of Christe from whence they were fallen▪ For I, (saith he▪) being amongst you delyuered you none other thinge thē that I had receiued of the Lorde. ⟨image 124⟩That thinge he thought meetest for you. And therfore with ye same ought you also to be contented.
Thus, when soever any order given by God is broken or abused, the best redress thereof is, to restore it again into the state that it first was in at the beginning.
Thus, when soeuer any order geuen by God is broken or abused, the best redresse therof is, to restore it again into the state that it first was in at the beginning.
Thus when the Temple of god at Jerusalem was so shamefully disordered by the priests and Levites▪ that it was become a cave of thieves. Christ for reformation thereof, called them back again to the first erection of the temple. Scriptum est: Domus mea Domus orationis vocabitur. It is written (saith Christ) in the Scriptures: My house shall be called the house of prayer. Thus was the temple of God used at the beginning and thus ought it to be used now.