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A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man John Jewel…A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel…
A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man John Jewel ... ; with an answer of the same author to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel ... ; with an answer of the same authour to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.
S.l. : s.n., 1641
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But (as God himself declareth, who fashioned us, and made us, and knoweth us best,) the very true end why man was made, was to know & to honour God: Therefore whoso knoweth him best, and honoureth him with most reverence, he is most perfect, he cometh nearest the end of his creation.
But (as God himselfe declareth, who fashioned us, and made us, and knoweth us best,) the very true end why man was made, was to know & to honour God: Therefore whoso knoweth him best, and honoureth him with most reverence, he is most perfect, he commeth neerest the end of his creation.
When Solomon had described the deceivable vanities of the world, and said, vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. When he had concluded by long discourse, that riches, 1Empires, honour, pleasures, knowledge, and whatsoever else under the Sun, is but vanity: he knitteth up the matter with these words, Fear God, and keep his Commandments: ⟨p. 3⟩2for this is the whole duty of man: that is, this is truth, and no vanity; this is our perfection; to this end are we made: not to live in eating and drinking, not to pass our time in pleasure and follies, not to heap up those things which are daily taken from us, or from which we are daily taken away; but that in our words, in our life, in our body, & in our soul we do service unto God; that we look above the Sun and Moon, and all the heavens; that we become the Temples of the holy Ghost; that the holy Spirit of God may dwell in us, and make us fit instruments of the glory of God.
When Solomon had described the deceaveable vanities of the world, and said, vanitie of vanities, vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie. When he had concluded by long discourse, that riches, 1Empires, honour, pleasures, knowledge, and whatsoever else under the Sunne, is but vanity: he knitteth up the matter with these words, Feare God, and keep his Commandements: