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A02883	The seconde parte of the Domesticall or housholde sermons for a godly housholder, to his childre[n] and familie: compyled by the godly learned man Christopher Hegendorffine, doctor most necessarye for all faythefull housholders: now first translated out of laten in to English by Henry Reginalde.; Domestycal or householde sermons. Part 2	Hegendorph, Christoph, 1500-1540.; Reginald, Henry, fl. 1548-1549.	1549 (1549)	STC 13022; ESTC S113439	23,987	67

✚ The Seconde parte of the Domesticall or housholde Sermons for a godly housholder to his childrē and familie Compyled by the godly learned man Christopher Hegendorffine doctor most necessarye for all faythefull housholders now first translated out of laten in to English by Henry Reiginalde Anuo M. D. xlix Deut .vi. These wordes which I cōmaunde the this day shal bee in thy herte and thou shalt shewe them vnto thy children and shalte talke of theym when thou arte at home in thy house and as thou walkeste by the waye c. The first and second sermon of the belief be prynted in the first parte ✚ The third Sermon domesticall vnto their children of the conception of Christe TO the first sentence of our belief well beloued childr●… this clause is wont to bean nexed I beleue in Iesus Christ our lord Anbic can not be declared what strength is in this worde our lorde for heere we witnes y t we doo beleue that Iesus Christe hathe brought and delyuered vs from the captiuitie of synne death hell and the deuil vndernethe his domynion And nowe doth rule all these enemyes and that we through Christ be higher then these enemyes for Christ hath gotten vnto vs. and not vnto him selfe a tryumphaunte victorie of suche tyranycall enemyes By what meanes Christe hath brought vs vnderneth his power the sequell folowynge sentences of our belief doo more playnely testifye And fyrste it foloweth which was conceyued by y e holy ghost that is I beleue Iesus Christe our lorde to be conceyued in the womb of the holye Virgyn Mary but not cōceiued by the meane of the seede of mā but of the holy ghost which in y e womb of the Vyrgyn Mary dyd make the ve ry body of Chryste And that is it that Damel saith the seconde Chapter that Chryste is the stone cut oute with oute handes that is as some men thynke withoute the seede of man to be conceyued in the wombe of the Vyrgin Marye And the Aungell Gabriel luke the fyrst chapter the Vyrgyn demaundyng how she should conceyue a sonne seyng that she neuer knewe man he answered The holy ghoste shall come vpon the the power of the highest shall ouer shadowe the. For this cause Christ wold be conceiued by the holy ghost that our vnpure conception gylty of dampnatiō for in synne we are conceyued the I. psalme should be purged by hym lest for the syn of our conception we shulde be caste into eternall death he therefore whiche doth beleue that Christe was cōceyued by the holy ghoste in the womb of the virgyn his mother for hys cause may trewly get and vendicate vnto him selfe purely the conception of Christe euē in lyke case as al other thyngs whiche Christe didde for Christe is all ours and all thynges which Christ dyd they be to be accompted in the self same place as if we had done them our selues the which thynges when we haue certifyed oure selues in wee can neuer be trow beled in anye other thynge anye more Christe Iesus whiche is oure lord hath alwaye rule in vs and euen the same which was conceyued by the holy ghoste clense throughly our vnpure conceptyon and gyue vs his grace to beleue that vndoubtedly it is all made cleane bye him So be it The fourth sermon domesticall to their chyldren of Christes byrthe A Few dayes a go welbeloued children ye haue hearde that the churche of Christe doth beleue y t he is y e son of god y t euerlastyng god w t the eternall god the father in lyke power as the father Row when Christe the sonne of god also is very man it foloweth in the belief I beleue in Iesus Christe which was borne of Mary the Virgyn And here is great occasion gyuen vnto me to speake largely of the byrthe of Chryste But when y t he is dyligentely written of by one of the Euangelystes and fyrst of Sainct luke .ij. Chapter Thyther will I sende you And at this tyme we will fyrste intreate what it is to beleue Christ to be borne of Mary the Virgin It is to declare brieflye nothynge else then to beleue that Christe is the sonne of God takyng very humaine flesh of the Virgin he was borne trew man and y t euen of the holy Virgin whose flower of chastitie was not taken awaye no chaunged neither before the byrthe neither in the byrthe neyther after y e byrth And for this cause I do beleue that this thynge was done that he should cleane pourge as well my vnpure natiuitie as al other mens and that he shouldbe that promised seede vnto Abrahā our father in the which as well I as all other men be blessed that is that we should folow the remyssion of oure synnes and an eternall lyfe and that we shoulde be deliuered from the power of the denyll And fyrste we muste heere marke y t euery man must ve●dycate and chalenge vnto hym the natiuitie of Chryst and y t Chryste was borne of the Virgyn Mary for his cause and he muste make hys soule to beleue that his natiuytie is truely pourged and made clene by Christes natyuitte and for to folowe the eternall saluation And that this was no hyndrance vnto him for this syngeth dayly the church onles our lyttell sonne Christ had byne born vnto vs we should haue perysued for euermore for this cause for that we were conceyued in synne and bor●● i● synne And as Paul to the Ephesians y ● ij chap. saith We are borne y e childrē of wrathe that is wee of oure owne strength do performe this one thyng for the which thinge god is angry with vs and doth condempne vs. Christ therfore is borne that we beyng the chyldren of wrathe shoulde be made well beloued chyldren of god by hys holy natyuytie and that he shoulde wasshe awaye the fylthynes of oure synnes of our vnpure natiuytie throughe hys holy natiuytie Paul to the Galathyaus y e iiij Cha. de clareth briefly wherfor crist was borne when he sayethe But when the fulnes of tyme was come God sent his sonne made of a womā that those which were gyltie vnder the law he shoulde redeme that we should be taken for hys sonnes by adoption Saynt Paul meaneth here in hys saying when the tyme was fulfil led that Christe shoulde be sente here in to this worlde god the father not being requested nor prouoked through our de seruynges but through his vnspeakeable mercy towardes man kynde sente not aunge● nor Prophete but his son not that the sonne shoulde here loke after his own cōmodities profites but y t he shoulde vendycate and chalenge vs from condemnation of the lawe which could not make amendes for our owne selues by our owne deseruynges for y e which he dyd abundantly make am●nds for vs and he beyng the trew lambe of God should take awaye oure synnes Ihon the fyrste Chapter y t so by Christ the onely naturall sonne of god we the whiche shoulde beleue in

that the holy ghost is god as heauen all thyng whiche is in heauen was made by hym Psalme Cxxxviii Whyther shall I god from the spirite And whyther shal I flie frō thy face It is in no creatures power for to be in all places or to fulfyll all the world but that pertayneth only to God the creator Furthermore that the holie ghost is very god these places may satisfy you for this tyme of the Godhed of y ● holy gost Now I come to the belief in y ● whiche we say I beleue in the holy gost with the whiche woordes I saye that I professe to beleue not onely that the holy ghoste is god with true god y ● father and very god the sonne and for to come forth of them bothe but also maketh in me that thyng that his name doth sygnifye truely that he doth sanctifye me with what meanes that is done y ● nexte sentences of the belefe do declare But truely to beleue in the holy ghoste is to beleue that our hartes are led by hym are styrred by him are moued to beleue the ghospell of Iesu Christ and that by hym we are broughte to the knowledge of the father and Christ and by hym ●e folow Christ our lord and our defender from all kynde of bondage For no man ●●● beleue at any time eyther the gospel or can by any meanes beleue christ to be his lord onles it be geuē him by y ● holye gost Therfore y ● congregatiō s●●geth in a song Now we beseche the holy ghost y ● first he wil geue vs a true faithe that he wil kepe vs before we come to an end whē we cōehome out of this life full of misery Lordhaue mercy on vs where y● here deere childrē y ● right faith both in y ● gospel to be asked of the holy ghost and Christ Corint .xij. No man can say Lord Iesus but by the holy gost To be short the holy ghost is the same spirite by whō our heauenly father bothe woorketh all thyng in vs and doth quicken thē in vs. And here the congregation doth syngagayne of the holy ghost Withoute the holy ghoste there is nothyng in manne and nothyng is without synne Wherefore welbeloued chyldren when eyther ye wil heare the word of god or doo any thing pray ye to Christ y ● he would send vnto you y ● holy ghost y ● whatsoeuer ye shal here or do y ● ye may both heare it ● do it luckely and happily And first we must desire christ y ● the holy gost may not leaue vs so long as ●e be in this worlde ▪ but at all tymes he maye be chiefly present with vs that he may defend us from the manyfold snares of the deuell preserue our hertes that they beyng alway intente and beeholdyng onely Iesus Christ our sauiour may not bee troubled with any thing contrarye to his commaundement So be it The thirtenth domesticall sermon to their chyldren of Christes Churche IN the last sermon welbeloued childrē ye haue herd that to beleue in the holye ghost is nothyng els then to beleue that the holy gost is very god with verye God the father and very god the sonne and that he doth make us verily holye euen as his holye name doeth signifie and nowe ye shall heare how by the holy gost we ar made holy and what thynges appertayn vnto him from the first beginning of y ● world and what appertaineth to hym euen to the end of the world This foloweth in the belefe I beleue the holy churche the communion of samtes Here ye oughte to bee admony shed wherefore we saye here I beleue the holy church and not in the holy churche Saint Cyprian doth make aunswere here for this cause it is done that the creator ought to be separated from the creatures and holy thinges may be separated from humayne thynges Furthermore whē we professe that we do beleue holy churche we shew and set forth the holynes of the church whiche can not be set forth before our corporall eyes for those thynges which we beleue are not seene with our eyes and so is the holynesse of the churche hydden for god hath wrapped his churche with many kyndes of infirmities with sinne with errours and with a thousande maner of crosses he doeth oppresse it that it seemeth to be nothyng lesse then holye Therfore whosoeuer doeth not obserue and marke the maner of god bilig●tly seeth or beholdeth y ● errours sinnes and daily falles in those mē which be born again w t the water of regeneration haue both y ● word of god do kepe it in faith cannot but greatly be offēded thinke that those are not to be taken of the holy churche But here perchaunce thou wilt saye But what is the Churche Heare welbeloued children this word Ecelesia is Greke word and in ●aten it signifieth Societatem or Concionem or Coetuns populi in Englishe it signifieth a felowshyp an asse●●ble or a congregatyon of people And this is this holy churche called a certayne feloweshyppe of holye ●●enne uppon yearthe warrynge vnder Chryste by the holy ghost ●o beholde the offyce of the holy ghoste congregat●d in one fayth mynde and vnderstandyng and mdewed with manye gyftes Briefly the holy church is al those whiche beleue in Christ this thing signifieth these wordes I beleue the cōmuniō of samtes Whiche wordes as the holy fathers testifie with one voyce the holy churche is expoūded to be a communiō or a felowship or congregatiō of saintes And this is the th●g y ● ● August writeth in a sermon of al saintes Our holy mother y ● faithful churche being sured in all the world taught chafflictions of Christ in the hed Iesu Christ c. But here perchaūce also you thinke with your selues Behold how is it y ● holy church of christ which as I haue said a little before sōtime falleth hedlong into sinne I make answere The holy church is by faith ●● Iesu Christ whilest truly it doth beleue that by Christes bloud it is washed clene frō all sinne .i. Iohn n. chap. And y ● holy church of Christ is those that do abstain from the sinnes of the flesh and do exercise thēselfs with spiritual exercises Furthermore it is not so holy that vtterly it lacketh al euill desires may be oppressed with no wicked opinions For y ● church of god must confesse her sinne therfore she praieth y ● her sinnes may be forgeuē Wherfore she beeleueth to haue remission of her synnes So that now we perceiue that saintes do sinne do ●alle and are disceiued but unawares for they wil not willyngely forsweare Iesu Christ ▪ and renounce his gospell wherfore they do optayne the remission of their sinnes and if they do at any tyme erre from the doctrine of Christ so that neglygentely they be oute of the waye there is made ready for them forgeuenesse for why sōtyme and specially