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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34926	The judgment of Archbishop Cranmer concerning the peoples right to, and discreet use of the H. Scriptures	Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.	1689 (1689)	Wing C6827; ESTC R7153	13,150	23

peruerse liuing that is it that bringeth all thinges out of good order Hitherto all that I have said I haue taken and gathered out of the foresaide Sermon of this holy Doctour Saint Iohn Chrysostome Nowe if I should in like maner bring forth what the self same doctour speaketh in other places and what other doctours and writers say concerning the same purpose I might seeme to you to write another Bible rather then to make a Preface to the Bible Wherefore in fewe wordes to comprehende the largenesse and vtility of the Scriptures howe it conteineth fruitfull instruction and erudition for euery man if any thing be necessary to be learned of the holy Scripture we may well learn it If falshood shall be reprooued thereof we may gather wherewithall If any thing be to be corrected and amended if there need any exhortation or consolation of the Scripture we may well learn. In the Scriptures be the fatte pastures of the soul therein is no venomous meate no vnwholesome thing they be the very daintie and pure feeding Hee that is ignorant shall finde there what he shoulde learne He that is a peruerse sinner shall there finde his damnation to make him to tremble for fear He that laboureth to serue God shall finde there his glory and the promissions of eternal life exhorting him more diligently to labour Herein may Princes learne howe to gouerne their Subiects Subiects obedience loue and dread to their Princes husbands howe they shoulde behaue themselues vnto their wiues how to educate their children and seruants And contrary the wiues children and seruants may knowe their dutie to their husbands parents and masters Here all maner of persons men women young olde learned vnlearned rich poor priests laymen lords ladies officers tenants and meane men virgins wiues widowes lawyers marchants artificers husbandmen and all maner of persons of what estate or condition soeuer they be may in this booke learne all thinges what they ought to beleeue what they ought to do and what they should not do as well concerning Almightie God as also concerning themselus and all other Briefly to the reading of the Scripture none can be enemie but that either be so sicke that they loue not to heare of any medicine or else that be so ignorant that they knowe not Scripture to be the most healthfull medicine Therefore as touching this former parte I will here conclude and take it for a conclusion sufficiently determined and appointed that it is conuenient and good the Scriptures to bee read of all sortes and kindes of people and in the vulgare tongue without further allegations or probations for the same which shall not need since that this one place of Iohn Chrysostome is ynough and sufficient to perswade all them that be not frowardly and peruersly set in their owne wilfull opinion specially now that the Kings highnesse being Supreme head next vnder Christ of this church of England hath approued with his royall assent the setting foorth hereof which onley to all true and obedient Subiects ought to be a sufficient reason for the allowance of the same without further delay reclamation or resistance although there were no Preface or other reason herein expressed Therefore now to come to the second or latter part of my purpose here is nothing so good in this worlde but it may be abused and turned from vnhurtfull and wholsome to hurtfull and noysome What is there aboue better then the Sunne the Moone and the Starres Yet was there that tooke occasion by the great beautie and vertue of them to dishonour God and to defile themselues with idolatrie giuing the honour of the liuing God and Creatour of all things to such thinges as he had created What is there here beneathe better then fire water meates drinkes mettals of golde siluer yron and steele Yet we see dayly great harme and much mischiefe done by euery one of these aswell for lacke of wisdome and prouidence of them that suffer euill as by the malice of them that worke the euill Thus to them that be euill of themselues euery thing setteth forwarde and encreaseth their euill be it of his owne nature a thing neuer so good like as contrarily to them that studie and endeuour themselues to goodnesse euery thing preuaileth them and profiteth vnto good be it of his owne nature a thing neuer so bad as Saint Paul saith His qui diligunt Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum All thinges do bring good successe to such as do loue God euen as out of most venemous wormes is made triacle the most soueraigne medicine for the preferuation of mans health in time of danger Wherefore I woulde aduise you all that come to the reading or hearing of this Booke which is the Word of God the most precious iewell and most holy relique that remaineth vpon earth that ye bring with you the feare of God and that ye do it with all due reuerence and vse your knowledge thereof not to vaineglory of friuolous disputation but to the honour of God encrease of vertue and edification both of your selues and others And to the intent that my words may be the more regarded I will vse in this part the authoritie of S. Gregory Nazianzene like as in the other I did of S. Iohn Chrysostome It appeareth that in his time there were some as I feare me there be also now at these dayes a great nomber which were idle brablers and talkers of the Scripture out of season and all good order and without any encrease of vertue or example of good living to them he writeth all his first Booke de Theologia Wherefore I shall briefly gather the whole effect and recite it here vnto you There be some saith he whose not only eares and tongues but also their fistes be whetted and readie bent all to contention and vnprofitable disputation whome I would wish as they be vehement and earnest to reason the matter with tongue so they were all readie and practiue to doe good deedes But for as much as they subuerting the order of all godlinesse have respect only to this thing how they may binde and loose subtill questions so that nowe euery marketplace euery alehouse and tauerne euery feasthouse briefly euery company of men euery assemblie of women is filled with such talke Since the matter is so saith he and that our faith and holy Religion of Christ beginneth to waxe nothing else but as it were a sophistrie or a talking craft I can no lesse doe but say something thereunto It is not fit saith he for euery man to dispute the high questions of Divinitie neither is it to be done at all times neither in euery audience must we discusse euery doubt but we must knowe when to whome and howe farre we ought to enter into such matters First it is not for every man but it is for such as be of exact and exquisite iudgments and such as haue spent their time before in studie and