A04483:166
A view of a seditious bull sent into England, from Pius Quintus Bishop of…A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of…
A view of a seditious bull sent into England, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reverend Father in God, John Jewel, late Bishop of Salisbury. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he delivered in divers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisbury, anno. 1570A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570
London: printed by R. Newberie & H. Bynneman, 1582
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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.
This profit of the word S. Cyprian declareth.1 Si ad divinae tradi•ionis caput, & originem revertamur, cessat omnis error humanus. If we return to the head, and the beginning of the Lords traditions, all error of man must needs give place. ⟨p. 146⟩Theophilactus writing upon these words in the Gospel by Saint John,2 He that entereth not in by the door into the Sheepfold, but climbeth up an other way, he is a thief and a Robber, sayth, non ingreditur per ostium, hoc est, per Scripturas. Non enim utitur Scripturis testibus, neque Prophetis. Nam profecto scripturae ostium sunt per quas adducimur ad Deum: illae lupos non permittunt intrare: prohibent haereticos ut nos securi simus: & de omnibus rationem dant de quibus voluerimus. Fur igitur est qui non ingreditur per scripturas in stabulum ovium, & ita per illas deprehenditur. Sed ascendit aliundè, hoc est, aliam sibi viam & insolitam parrot. Talis erit Antichristus. He entereth not in by the door, that is, by the Scriptures. For he doth not use the Scriptures, nor the Prophets, as witnesses. For indeed the Scriptures are the door by which we are brought to God: and they suffer not the Wolves to come in, they keep of heretics, that we may be in safety: & they teach us the reason of any thing, wherein we would be instructed: therefore he is a thief which entereth ⟨p. 147⟩not into the sheepfold by the Scriptures. And by the Scriptures, it appeareth he is a a thief, that climbeth up an other way, that is, maketh himself an other way, a way which was not known, nor beaten. Such a one shall Antichrist be. What greater profit? they bring us to God: teach us the trueth, and give us reason of all things: they keep us in safety: suffer not Wolves to devour us, keep off Heretics, bewray a thief, and make known who is Antichrist. Therefore, upon the Gospel by Saint Luke he expoundeth these words,3 Let your lights be burning, that is, have not your being in the darkness, and be ye not void of Judgement: but take unto you the light of Gods word: which will teach you what things you should do, and what things you ought not to do.