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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03549	The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.; Certain sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches. Book 2.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Church of England. Homelie against disobedience and wylfull rebellion.; Church of England.	1571 (1571)	STC 13669; ESTC S106160	342,286	618

to towne from place to place without punishment which neyther serue God nor their prince but deuoure the sweete fruites of other mens labour being common liers drunkardes swearers theeues whoremaisters and murtherers refusing all honest labour and geue them selues to nothyng els but to inuent and do mischeefe whereof they are more desyrous and greedy then is any Lion of his pray To remedy this inconueniencie let al parentes others whiche haue the care and gouernance of youth so bring them vp eyther in good learnyng labour or some honest occupation or trade whereby they may be able in time to come not only to sustaine them selues competently but also to relieue and supplie the necessitie and want of others And saint Paul sayth Let hym that hath stolen steale no more and he that hath deceaued others or vsed vnlawful wayes to get his liuing leaue of the same labour rather workyng with his handes that thing whiche is good that he may haue that which is necessarie for hym selfe and also be able to geue vnto others that stande in neede of his helpe The prophet Dauid thinketh him happy that liueth vpon his labour saying When thou eatest the labours of thyne handes happy art thou and wel is thee This happines or blessing consisteth in these such like pointes First it is the gyft of God as Salomon sayth when one eateth and drinketh and receaueth good of his labour Secondaryly when one liueth of his owne labour so it be honest good he liueth of it with a good conscience And an vpryght conscience is a treasure inestimable Thirdly he eateth his bread not with brawling and chiding but with peace and quietnes when he quietly laboureth for the same accordyng to saint Paules admonition Fourthly he is no mans bondman for his meate sake nor needeth not for that to hang vpon the good wyll of other men but so liueth of his owne that he is able to geue part to others And to conclude the labouryng man and his familie whyles they are busilie occupied in their labour be free from many temptations and occasions of sinne which they that liue in idlenesse are subiect vnto And here ought Artificers and Labouring men who be at wages for their worke and labour to consyder theyr conscience to God and theyr duetie to their neighbour least they abuse their tyme in idlenesse so defraudyng them whiche be at charge both with great wages and deare commons They be worse then idle men in deede for that they seeke to haue wages for their loytring It is lesse daunger to God to be idle for no gayne then by idlenes to win out of theyr neyghbours purses wages for that which is not deserued It is true that almyghtie God is angry with suche as do defraude the hyred man of his wages The crie of that iniurie ascendeth vp to Gods eare for vengeaunce And as true it is that the hyred man who vseth deceipt in his labour is a theefe before god Let no man sayth saint Paul to the Thessalonians subtilly beguile his brother let him not defraud him in his busines For the lord is reuenger of suche deceiptes Wherevppon he that wyll haue a good conscience to God that labouring man I say which dependeth wholye vpon Gods benediction ministring all thynges sufficient for his liuing let hym vse his tyme in faythful labour and when his labour by sicknes or other misfortune doth ceasse yet let him think for that in his health he serued GOD and his neyghbour truely he shall not want in tyme of necessitie God vppon respect of his fidelitie in health wyll recompence his indigence to moue the heartes of good men to relieue suche decayed men in sicknesse Where otherwyse whatsoeuer is gotten by idlenesse shall haue no foyson to helpe in tyme of neede Let the labouryng man therfore eschew for his part this vice of idlenesse and deceipt remembring that saint Paul exhorteth euery man to lay away al deceipt dissimulation and lying and to vse trueth plainenesse to his neyghbour because sayth he we be members together in one body vnder one head Christ our sauiour And here myght be charged the seruing men of this Realme who spend their tyme in much idlenesse of life nothyng regardyng the oportunitie of their time forgetting how seruice is no heritage howe age will creepe vpon them where wysdome were they should expende theyr idle time in some good businesse whereby they myght increase in knowledge so the more worthy to be readye for euery mans seruice It is a great rebuke to them that they studie not eyther to write fayre to kepe a booke of accompt to studie the tongues and so to get wysdome knowledge in suche bookes and workes as be nowe plentifully set out in print of all maner languages Let young men consyder the pretious value of their time and wast it not in idlenesse in iolitie in gaming in banqueting in ruffians company Youth is but vanitie and must be accompted for before god Howe mery and glad soeuer thou be in thy youth O young man sayth the preacher how glad soeuer thy heartbe in thy young dayes how fast and freely soeuer thou folowe the waies of thine owne heart and the lust of thyne owne eyes yet be thou sure that God shal bring thee into iudgement for al these thinges God of his mercie put it into the heartes mindes of all them that haue the sworde of punishment in their hands or haue families vnder their gouernance to labour to redres this great enormitie of al such as liue idelly and vnprofitably in the cōmon weale to the great dishonour of God the greeuous plague of his seely people To leaue sinne vnpunished and to neglect the good bryngyng vp of youth is nothyng els but to kindle the Lordes wrath agaynst vs and to heape plagues vpon our owne heades As long as the adulterous people were suffered to liue licenciously without reformation so long dyd the plague continue and increase in Israel as ye may see in the booke of Numbers But when due correction was done vpon them the Lordes anger was straightway pacified and the plague ceassed Let al officers therefore loke straightly to their charge Let all maisters of housholdes refourme this abuse in their families Let them vse the aucthoritie that God hath geuen them Let them not mainteyne vagaboundes and idle persons but deliuer the Realme and their householdes from suche noysome loyterers that idlenesse the mother of al mischeefe being cleane taken away almyghtie God may turne his dreadful anger away from vs cōfirme the couenant of peace vpon vs for euer through the merites of Jesus Christ our only Lord sauiour to whom with the father and the holy ghost be all honour and glory worlde without ende Amen An Homilee of repentaunce and of true reconciliation vnto God. THere is nothing that the holy ghost doth so much labour in all the scriptures to beate into

incense before an image suffered moste cruell and terrible deathes as the histories of them at large do declare And here agayne theyr allegatian out of Gregorie the first and Damassen that images be the laye mens bookes and that pycture is the scripture of idiottes and simple persons is worthy to be consydered For as it hath ben touched in diuers places before howe they be bookes teachyng nothyng but lyes as by saint Paul in the first Chapter to the Romanes euidently appeareth of the images of GOD So what maner of bookes and scripture these paynted and gylte images of saintes be vnto the common people note well I praye you For after that our preachers shall haue instructed and exhorted the people to the folowyng of the vertues of the saintes as contempte of this worlde pouertie sobernesse chastitie and suche lyke vertues whiche vndoubtedlye were in the saintes Thynke you assoone as they turne their faces from the preacher and looke vppon the grauen bookes and paynted scripture of the glorious gylte images and idolles all shynyng and glytteryng with mettall and stone and couered with precious vestures or els with Choerea in Terence beholde a paynted table wherein is set foorth by the art of the paynter an image with a nice and wanton apparell and countenaunce more lyke to Venus or Flora then Marie Magdalene or yf lyke to Marie Magdalene it is when she played the harlot rather then when she wept for her sinnes When I say they turne about from the preacher to these bookes and scoolemaisters and paynted scriptures shall they not fynde them lying bookes teachyng other maner of lessons of esteeming of riches of pride and vanitie in apparell of nycenesse and wantonnesse and peraduenture of whoredome as Choerea of lyke pyctures was taught And in Lucian one learned of Venus Gnidia a lesson to abominable here to be remembred Be not these thynke you pretye bookes and scriptures for simple people and specially for wyues and young maydens to looke in reade on and learne suche lessons of What wyll they thinke eyther of the preacher who taught them contrarye lessons of the saintes and therefore by these caruen doctours are charged with a lye or of the saintes them selues yf they beleue these grauen bookes and paynted scriptures of them who make the saintes nowe raignyng in heauen with God to theyr great dishonour scoolemaisters of suche vanitie which they in theyr lyfe tyme moste abhorred For what lessons of contempte of rychesse and vanitie of this worlde can such bookes so besmeared with golde set with stone couered with silkes teache What lessons of sobernesse and chastitie can our women learne of these pyctured scriptures with theyr nice apparell and wanton lookes But away for shame with these coloured clokes of idolatrie of the bookes and scriptures of images and pictures to teache idiottes nay to make idiotes and starke fooles beastes of Christians Do men I pray you when they haue the same bookes at home with them runne on pylgrymage to seeke like bookes at Rome Compostella or Hierusalem to be taught by them when they haue the lyke to learne of at home Do men reuerence some bookes and despyse and set lyght by other of the same sorte Do men kneele before theyr bookes light candels at noone time burne incense offer vp gold and siluer and other giftes to theyr bookes Do men eyther fayne or beleue miracles to be wrought by theyr bookes I am sure that the newe Testament of our sauiour Jesus Christe conteynyng the worde of lyfe is a more lyuely expresse and true image of our sauiour then all carued grauen moulten and paynted images in the worlde be and yet none of all these thynges be done to that booke or scripture of the Gospell of our sauiour which be done to images pictures the bookes and scriptures of lay men and idiotes as they call them Wherfore call them what they list it is most euident by theyr deedes that they make of them no other bookes nor scriptures then suche as teache most fylthye and horrible idolatrie as the vsers of such bookes dayly proue by continuall practisyng the same O bookes and scriptures in the whiche the deuilyshe scoolemaister satan hath penned the lewde lessons of wicked idolatrie for his dastardelye disciples and scollers to beholde reade and learne to Gods most hygh dishonour and theyr moste horrible damnation Haue not we ben muche bounde thinke you to those whiche shoulde haue taught vs the trueth out of Gods booke and his holye scripture that they haue shut vp that booke and scripture from vs and none of vs so bolde as once to open it or reade on it and in steade thereof to spreade vs abroade these goodly caruen and gylted bookes and paynted scriptures to teache vs suche good and godly lessons Haue not they done wel after they ceassed to stande in pulpittes them selues and to teache the people committed to theyr instruction kepyng scilence of Gods worde and become dumbe dogges as the prophete calleth them to set vp in theyr steade on euery pyller and corner of the Church such goodly doctours as dumbe but more wicked then them selues be We neede not to complayne of the lacke of one dumbe Parson hauing so many dumbe deuelish Uicars I meane these idols painted puppets to teache in theyr steade Nowe in the meane season whilest the dumbe and dead idols stand thus decked clothed contrary to gods law and commaundement the poore christian people the liuely images of God commended to vs so tenderly by our sauiour Christe as moste deare to him stand naked shyneryng for colde and theyr teeth chatteryng in theyr heades and no man couereth them are pyned with hunger and thirste and no man geueth them a peny to refresh them where as poundes be redye at all tymes contrarye to Gods worde and will to decke and trymme dead stockes and stones whiche neyther feele colde hunger ne thirst Clemens hath a notable sentence concernyng this matter saying thus That serpent the deuyll doth by the mouth of certayne men vtter these wordes ●e for the honour of the inuisible god do worship visible images which doubtlesse is most false For yf you wyll truely honour the image of God you should by doyng well to man honour the true image of God in hym For the image of God is in euery man But the likenesse of God is not in euery one but in those onlye which haue a godly heart and pure mynde If you wyll therefore truely honour the image of God we do declare to you the trueth that ye do well to man who is made after the image of God that you geue honour and reuerence to hym and refreshe the hungry with meate the thirstie with drynke the naked with clothes the sicke with attendaunce the straunger harbourlesse with lodgyng the prysoners with necessaries this shal be accompted as truely bestowed vpon god And these thynges are so directlye apparteynyng to Gods honour that