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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
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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.
Now it followeth we consider how necessary, 1and needful it is for us to be guided by the word of God, in the whole trade of our life. The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body. As the body dyeth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dyeth,2 when it hath not the knowledge of GOD. Man liveth not by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Behold saith God,3 I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing ⟨p. 180⟩the word of the Lord. Their tongue shall wither, their heart shall starve, they shall dye for hunger: They shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North unto the East, shall they run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. 4They shall stumble at noon days, as at the twilight: they shall grope for the wall like the blind: and truth shall fall in their streets. For, how shall they be saved unless they call on the name of the Lord?5 how shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Howe shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? & how shall they hear without a Preacher? & how shall they preach except they be sent? Chrysostom therefore saith, Neither can it be, I say, it can not be, that any man shall attain to salvation, except he be always occupied in spiritual reading. The wise man faith, Where there is no prophecy, 6the people decay. Where the Scriptures are not opened, when there is none that can edify, and exhort, and comfort the people by the word of God, they must needs ⟨p. 181⟩perish: for they know not the way in which they should walk: they know not whom to honour, nor upon whose name they should call: they know neither what to believe, nor what to do. Hell hath enlarged it self, and hath opened his mouth without measure, and they that are wilful and ignorant, and the children of darkness, go down into it. They become thrall, and captives unto Satan. Their heart is bound up, they understand nothing: their eyes are shut up, they can see nothing: their ears are stopped up, they can hear nothing. They are carried away as a pray into Hell, because they have not y knowledge of God.