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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What should I say more of the ⟨p. 178⟩Scriptures, how profitable, and comfortable they be in all cases and parts of our life? in adversity, in prosperity, in life and in death, they are our especial comfort. If we must fight, they are a sword: if we hunger, they are meat: if we thirst, they are drink: if we have no dwelling place, they are a house: if we be naked, they are a garment: if we be in darkness, they be light unto our going.
What shoulde I saye more of the ⟨p. 178⟩Scriptures, how profitable, and comfortable they be in all cases and parts of our life? in aduersitie, in prosperitie, in life and in death, they are our especiall comfort. If we must fight, they are a sworde: if we hunger, they are meate: if we thirst, they are drinke: if we haue no dwelling place, they are a house: if we be naked, they are a garment: if we be in darknesse, they be light vnto our going.
They are comfortable to kings, to subjects, to old men, to young men, to man and to wife, to father & to child, to master and servant, to captain and soldier, to preacher and people, to the learned, to the unlearned, to the wise, and to the simple.
They are comfortable to kings, to subiects, to old men, to yong men, to mā and to wife, to father & to childe, to maister and seruant, to captaine and souldiour, to preacher and people, to the learned, to the vnlearned, to the wise, and to the simple.
They are comfortable in peace, in war, in heaviness, in joy, in health & sickness, in abundance, in poverty, in the day time, in the night season, in the town, in the wilderness, in company and when thou art alone. For they teach faith, hope, patience, charity, sobriety, humility, righteousness,