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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04477	A sermon made in latine in Oxenforde in the raigne of King Edwarde the sixt, / by the learned and godly father Iohn Iuel, late Bishop of Sarisburie, and translated into Englishe, by R.V. Dedicated vnto the Bishop of London, as appeareth in the Commentarie of Ma. Caluine, vpon the Galathians, in Englishe.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Vaux, Robert.	1581 (1581)	STC 14609.5; ESTC S106654	14,237	44

God And thereof it is that al the scriptures doe mooue vs so often so diligently that we neither ad any thing to the word of God nor take ought therfrō nor that we bow to the right hand or the left Neither would the Lord y t we shold be Princes and Iudges but messengers ministers of his worde For looke what serueth to our saluation vnto godlines al that hath God himself set downe in his lawes For the holy scripture as Paule saith inspired by God is profitable to doctrine to reproue to correctiō to instruction y t the man of God may be perfect instructed to euery good work y t the man of God saith he may be perfect sound as far as is requisite either to godlinesse or maners y t he shold in euery respect be perfectly furnished now I pray you what shold God his embassador bring forth vnto god his people rather then the word of God He that is an Embassador in ciuile affairs if perhaps he say any thing beside y t which is cōmaunded him he is accused that he hath not don his embassade rightly he is called to his triall he is araigned vpon life and death and why doe not we with like fidilitie handle the worde of God But too too good God too too secure a mynd my brethren too too secure a mynd be wee of And as though men alone could not be deceaued so do we hold so doe we defende that alonely which is come from our forefathers There were among the Iewes manye Murtherers theeues and adulterers and yet did not Christe enuey eyther more often or more bitterlye againste any than againste the Phariseis Scribes you breake sayth he the commaundement of God for your owne traditions In vayne doe you worship me teaching doctrines and the preceptes of men They are blind guides of the blinde Harlots and sinners shall goe into the kingdome of God before you How often and with what wordes doeth the Lorde in the Prophets complayn of this Be astonished yee Heauens saith he My people haue done two euils they haue forsaken me the fountayne of liuing water and haue digged vnto themselues broken Cesternes which canne holde no waters What is chaffe compared with Wheate what is the rashnesse of men compared with the eternall will of God For Basill doth say that that man which dareth put to or take away any thing frō the scriptures of God is eyther a feeble Christian or a notable arrogant fellowe To put to the word of God the inuentions of men what other thing may it seeme thā to mingle new wine not with olde wine but with wine that is deade and with lees or dregges and to ioyne light with darkenesse a wilde beast with a man a man with God My thoughtes are not your thoughts nor my ways are not your wayes sayeth the Lorde for looke how farre the heauen is from the earth so farre are my wayes from your wayes and my thoughtes from your thoughtes Nay rather looke how farre a man is distaunt from God so farre is the vnderstanding of man distaunte from the word of God For although very much by the iudgement of all men is to be giuen to the Fathers yet were they men and also might erre Truelye to speake nothing else of them they did oftentimes verye ill agee mong themselues about verye great and weighty matters But the word of god is sure firme certayn appointed for euery time Peter would haue this kind of learning to be deliuered vnto y e people in a sermō And he y t wil haue doings her in with the people must first bee instructed himselfe with the word of God y t he may vtter the word as inspired with an heauēlye power O if Peter were nowe aliue What would he say or rather what wold he not say seing that religion godlinesse the scriptures are all passed into the inuentions dreames of men That is only in question at these dayes whether the customes of mē are rather to be retained or y e lawes of God That alone hath moued these turmoiles that hath stirred the whole world whether more credite is to be giuen vnto a man or vnto god I know y t these thinges seeme new to the most of you not to be beleued but put frō you I beseech you your affectiōs y e opinion of things which you haue alredy cōceiued you shal well perceaue y t I faine nothing for the times sake but that I speake the thing it self Christ hath ordeined the holy Communion in remembraunce of himselfe men doe neither retayne anye remembrance of Christ nor yet Cōmuniō but haue chaunged all the whole matter into a gay shew and almost a stage play Christ sayth Yee shall haue the poore alwayes with you but me ye shal not haue alwaies I leaue the world and go to my father It is expedient for you that I go away and Christ spake this not of his Godhead wherewith he was equal to the father or of his heauenlye nature but of his body Men saye that Christe neyther hath with his body left the world nor yet gone from hence to his father Paul saith that Christ is in heauen at the right hand of the father Peter sayth in the Actes of the Apostles Heauen must hold him vntil the time that al things are restored Men say That the body of Christ is in heauen and in earth both at once and is dispearced into an infinite multitude of places at one time Paule saith y t Christ hath once entred into the holy places hath with one only sacrifice one oblatiō made perfect al things Men say that they can sacrifice christ himself again euery day not only for remembraunce sake but in very deede and that in infinite places Christe sayth Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God and him only shalt thou serue Men worship the Eucharist alack the while being neyther Lord nor God but a sacrament of the Lorde without authoritie of the scriptures or exāple of the Apostles and that as God For by the liuing God I beseeche you consider in your myndes bretheren who euer I will not saye of the Apostles but of the holy fathers hath either worshipped the Sacrament himselfe or hath shewed it forth to bee worshipped of others I see that I speake these things not before the cōmon sort of men but before them who are profoundly learned I appeale to all your consciences I will vse in this matter youre owne testimonie Christ hath commaunded y e Sacramēt to be deliuered whole Men haue torne the same after a miserable maner Christ willed that nothing shoulde bee added to his lawe Men doe not only adde many thinges but y e same they preferre before the worde of God But why shoulde I recken vp more This onely will I speake and that in a worde they whiche broughte in transubstantiations masses calling vpon saints sole life purgatorie images vowes