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B00958 Homelies sette forth by the righte reuerende father in God, Edmunde Byshop of London, not onely promised before in his booke, intituled, A necessary doctrine, but also now of late adioyned, and added thereunto, to be read within his diocesse of London, of all persons, vycars, and curates, vnto theyr parishioners, vpon sondayes, & holydayes. Bonner, Edmund, 1500?-1569. 1555 (1555) STC 3285.2; ESTC S103088 74,513 149

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Surelye sayeth he it is no absurdyte that synnes are forgyuē by thē which haue the holy ghost in thē Nowe yf you wyll marke that not the preest onely but also the holy Ghost dothe woorke in remitting and pardonyng synnes than I trust you wyll see graunte this aucthoritie of Christes catholike churche which thyng euery chrysten man dothe confesse dayly in his crede saying not onely I beleue the holy catholyke churche the communion of saynctes but addyth also the remyssion of synnes to be in the same catholike churche i. Timo. 1. Doo not we rede that saynt Paule dyd vse this aucthoritie whan he did excommunicate Hymeneus and Alexander dyd not the holye Byshoppe saynt Ambrose vse this aucthoritie in euery poynt vpon the emperoure Theodosius Theodorit Lib. 5. hist. Eccle. ca. 18 Which holy byshoppe perceyuynge the emperoure had greuouslye offended dyd not spare to excommunicate hym yea and though he offered him selfe obedientlye to be receyued yet was it after longe penaunce that he was absolued this holy byshoppe dyd vse the authoritie giuen to him by God thys christen emperoure knowing the same dyd with al humilitie obey Yf the bishopes and preistes in time past and also the layitee had lerned and practsied there duetyes and vocations by this example surelye the churche of Chryste shoulde not haue come to such great disordre as we see neyther shoulde vyce and wyckednes so frely haue bene vsyd but bicause this mater is largely and lernedly set fourth in the sacramēt of penance I wil cease to speake any more hereof and nowe it remayneth to declare what cōmoditie and profytte we haue by thys catholyke church our lorde and mayster chryste in the gospell of saincte Iohn Iohn 15. doeth compare hym selfe to the vyne tree and all vs to the braunches and sayeth Manete in me et ego in vobis Abyde you in me that is to saye in the faythe of my churche And I wyll abyde in you Oh mercyful Lord what comfort and commoditye is this for a christen man to haue Christe to abyde with hym And farther he sayeth Yf you abide in me my wordes abide in you aske what you wyl it shal be graunted to you Here are we sure that if we abyde in christes catholike churche embrace the faythe and doctryne therof both Christ hym selfe by grace wyll abyde in vs and also oure prayers shal euermore be hearde And wythoute all doute there is no abiding in Christe vnles we abide in the vnyte of hys catholyke churche For as saynct Cipriane sayeth Ciprianus de simpli prelat Non potest habere deum patrem qui non nouit Ecclesiam matrem He cannot haue God hys father that knoweth not the churche to be his mother But a child of God knowīg the churche to be his mother lyinge in the bosome thereof may be sure that Christ the spouse of the churche Gene. 7.8 wyll neuer forgette hys nedefull requestes And as no lyuely creature was saued from death but suche onely as were in the arcke of Noe Gen. 7 8. so is there none saued from dampnation but those that are in the vnyte of Christes churche And therefore to gyue vs warnynge the holye doctoure Saincte Augustyne speaketh in thys maner mooste playnlye Quisquis ergo ab hac catholica ecclesia fuerit seperatus quā tū libet laudabiliter se uiuere existimet August epist 152. hoc folo scelere quod a Christi Vnitate disiunctus est nō habebit uitam sedir a dei manet super cū That is in englysh Whosoeuer therfore shal be seperatid frō this catholike church although he think himself to liue neuer so worthely yet for this onelye crime that he is separated frō the vnitie of Christ he shal not haue life but the wrath of god abideth vpon hym But what nede is it to allege saincte Augustine or any other auncient father herein seing almyghty God by hys prophet Esay hath set furthe to vs a lytle picture of hys churche Esai 5. vnder the name of a vyneyarde and the house of Israell There maye we see that thynge that we by experience doo knowe For almyghty God in that parable declareth by hys Prophete howe muche he had doone for the house of Israell a fygure of Christes churche in that he had planted them in a batsome and frutefull countrey and had gyuen to them good gouernours and orders wherein they myghte haue lyued and pleased hym but forasmuche as they dyd wylfullye breake the lawes of God hys ordinance he threatned them saying Auferam sepem eius et erit in direptionem c. Ibidem I wyll sayeth oure Lorde take awaye the hedge of my vyneyarde that it may peryshe Euen so hathe our sauioure Christe dealed wyth vs the people of his churche For where as by his preciouse deathe and passion he dyd purchase vs and lefte vs in the custodye of his catholyke church as is before sayde leauynge also to vs lawes to obserue and sacramentes wherewith we should be preserued And we naughty people haue dyspysed al his moost godly and holsome decrees and ordinances he hathe of his iustyce and accordynge to hys promyse euen in oure tyme punished vs and hath suffred the wicked to plucke downe the pale or hedge of his vineyarde I meane all good order as well in the churche as in the common wealthe and that for the space of many yeares paste Nowe here christen people thoughe you doo not consyder the plage of sundrye synnes that hathe in this late scysme possessed manye mens soules yet doo not dyssemble nor forgette the miserye that we all haue suffered outewardelye synce we were separate from the churche of Christe alas what Christen bloude wythin this Realme euen by oure owne countreimen hath bene shed Oh Lord how many poore wydowes without comforte haue bene lefte Howe many fatherlesse children without soccoure I leaue here to speake of the vnshameles breakynge of the deade mennes testamentes and theyr mooste godly intentes ordinances Abbais are poulled downe Collegis and Chantrees are ouerthrowē churches are robbed and poore Christ that is to saye the hungry and nedefull people famyshe and crye oute therefore All these surely wyth many mo haue come vpon vs bicause we haue bene oute of the house of God Wherefore in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe let vs all togyther lament and be sory for oure goynge astraye let vs come and fal downe before God oure father and confesse oure transgression and humblye desyre Luce. 15. that we maye be receyued into hys house whyche is the churche thoughe we shoulde all the dayes of oure lyues be but hyrelynges Quia melior est dies vnus in atrijs tuis super milia Psal 83. One daye Oh Lorde is better spente in thy house than a thousande otherwyse Fynallye yf we contynew obedyente chyldren in the bosome of our mother the holye churche we shall be fedde wyth
to al mē Thus haue you hard fyrste the louynge kyndnes of God to man in that he created hym in so worthye a maner nexte ye haue harde the myschyfe that commeth to mankynd by synne and thirdly what an extreme enemy also the deuyll is vnto vs. In an other homily hereafter ye shal heare of the exceding great mercy of god in deliuering mākind by a meruelous maner out of the estate of this dampnatiō Wherfore to conclude for thys presente tyme this shal be to exhort you that you fayle not daylye and howrelye to geue most harty thankes to almyghty God for that he of his mere goodnes created you created you not without sense as the stones not without reason as the brute beastes but hathe gyuen you all notable qualities and powers that other corporall creatures haue and besydes hathe perticularlye planted in you reason and vnderstāding and sondry goodly qualities of body and soule seuerall to the nature of man only and not commō to man and other erthly creatures This is furthermore also to exhorte you that remembryng what miserye came to mankynde by synne and by such a synne as in some mēs iudgement might seme to be but very smale it is to wytte by eatynge of an appel you wyl be circumspecte in auoiding of al kinde of synne and disobedience be the thinge in hys owne nature neuer so smale a thynge whyche is by God hym selfe or by suche as we owe obedience vnto commaunded Fynallye and laste of al this is to exhorte you to consyder dilygently that we haue a deadly ennemy which is the deuil who desyreth oure destruction and doth moost craftely and busely trauayle by all meanes wyth vs to worke the same of whose mooste subtyll and wilye traynes we muste principally take hede of whiche graunt vnto vs all the blessed trinitie the father the Sonne and the holye ghoste to whome be all honoure and glorye worlde withoute ende Amen Io. Harpesfeld sacrae theologiae professor Arch. London ¶ An homely of the misery of all mankinde and of hys condempnation to euerlastynge deathe by hys owne synne THe holye ghoste in wryting the holy scripture is in nothyng more diligēt then to pull downe mannes vayne glory and pryde which of all vices is moost vniuersallye graffed in mankynde euen from the fyrste infection of our fyrste father Adam And therefore we reade in many places of scripture many notable lessons agaynst this olde rooted vyce to teache vs the moost cōmēdable vertue of humilitie howe to know our selues to remēber what we be of our selues In the booke of Genesis almyghty God geueth vs all a tytle name in oure great graunde father Adam which ought to admonishe vs al to consyder what we be whereof we be from whence we came whyther we shall sayenge thus In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo Gene 3. donec reuertaris in terram de qua sūptus es quia puluis es et in puluerem reuerteris That is to saye In the sweate of thy face thou shalt eate thy breade vntyll thou retournest into the earth oute of whyche thou waste taken for dust thou art into dust thou shalt retourne Here as it were in a glasse we may learne to know ourselues that we be but grounde earthe and dust and that to grounde earthe and duste we shall returne agayne whyche name and title of earthe and duste appoynted and assigned by God to all mankynde the holye Patriarche Abraham dyd well remember and therefore he calleth hym selfe by that name when he maketh his earnest prayer for Sodome and Gomorre saying in the .xviii. of Genesis Cum sim puluis et cuius Gene. 18 that is to saye seyng I am dust and ashes Iudith 3. and. 9. Iob. 13. Hiere 6. and .25 And we reade that Iudith Hester Iob Hieremye with other holy men and women in the olde testament did vse sacke clothe and did caste duste and asshes vpon theyr heades when they bewayled theyr synnefull lyuynge They called and cryed to God for helpe and mercy with suche a ceremony of sacke clothe duste and asshes that thereby they might declare to the hole world what an humble and lowlye estimation they had of theim selues and howe well they remembred theyr name tytle aforesayde theyr vyle corrupte frayle nature duste earth and asshes The booke of wysedome also willynge to pull downe oure proude stomakes Sapience 7. moueth vs diligently to remember our mortall and earthely generation which we haue al of him that was first made and that all men aswell kynges as subiectes doo come into this worlde and doo goo oute of the same in lyke sorte that is as of oure selues full myserable as we maye daylye see And almyghtye God commaūded his Prophet Esay to make a proclamation Esai 11. and to crye to the hole worlde that all flesshe is grasse and that all the glorye of man is as the flower of the feilde the grasse is wythered and the flower doth fall away for the winde of our Lord bloweth vpon it The people surely is grasse whiche dryeth vp and the flower fadeth away but the woorde of our Lord abydeth for euer Accordynge wherevnto the holye prophet Iob hauynge in hym selfe great experience of miserable and synnefull estate of man dothe open the same to the worlde in these wordes Homo natus de muliere Iob. 14. breui viuens tempore repletur multis miserijs qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur et fugit velut vmbra et nūque in eodem statu permanet et dignum ducis super huiuscemodi aperire oculos tuos et adducere eum tecum in iudicium quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine That is to say Man beynge borne of a woman lyuynge a shorte tyme is full of manyfolde miseries he spryngeth vp lyke a flower fadeth againe vanyshynge away as it were a shadow and neuer contineweth in one state And doest thou iudge it mete O Lorde to open thyne eyes vpon suche a one and to brynge hym to iudgement with thee who can make hym cleane that is cōceyued of an vncleane seede In dede all men of theyr euylnes and naturall prones were so vniuersallye gyuen to synne that God as the scripture testifyeth repented that euer he made man And by synne Gene. 5. and. 7. his indignation was so muche prouoked agaynste the worlde that he drowned all the worlde wyth Noes fludde except Noe him selfe and hys lytle householde It is not withoute greate cause that the scripture of God dothe so many times call all menne here in this worlde earthe sayenge O thou earth thou earth thou earthe heare the woorde of oure Lorde Hiere 22. Hiere xxij This oure ryght name vocation and tytle earthe earthe earth pronounced by the prophet sheweth what we be in dede by what soeuer other style tytle or dignitye mē doo call vs. Thus he plainly nameth vs who knoweth best bothe what
forasmuche as the holye ghoste is the gouernour and ruler of the catholyke churche we ought there onely and in no other corner to serche the true vnderstandynge and dyscernynge of the scryptures And for this cause the aucient fathers were they neuer so godly and so wel learned yet woulde they neuer presume vpon theyr owne iudgementes but euer referred them selues to the vnderstandyng and interpretacion of the catholyke churche before them Therfore the godly lerned and ancient father Ireneus Ireneus li. 3 capi 4 wryting agaynste schismaticall heresyes sayeth thus Quid enim si qui de aliqua modica questione disceptatio esset nonne oporteret in antiquissimas recurrere Ecclesias c. that is to saye but what and yf there were contencion concerning some smal question were it not necessarye to returne to the mooste auncient churches and immediatly after he sayeth Quid autem si neque apostoli quidem scripturas reliquissent nobis nonne oportebat ordinem sequi traditionis quam tradiderunt hijs quibus committebant Ecclesias What sayeth this holye father yf the Apostles had lefte to vs no scripture at all had it not bene necessarye to folowe the order of that tradition whyche they delyuered to those to whome they dyd bequethe the churche Alas good people howe farre are manye in these dayes gone from this olde and aunciēt rule this blessed martir here exhorteth or rather commaundeth that yf any small dyscorde thoughe it be in a matter of lytle importaunce doo chaunce that we woulde not accordyng to our fantasy iudge therein but though we haue no scripture for the same yet sayeth he we ought to folowe kepe and obserue the tradition of the aunciente churches Where as in these late dayes the impudente procedars haue taughte the zely people that euery man shoulde and may be a iudge of controuersyes and that we oughte to obserue no tradition nor ceremonye other than we fynde in the holy scrypture Of suche the same holy Ireneus dooeth speake thus after many other notable lessons to the same purpose Omnes autem hij decidunt a veritate Ireneus li. 4 Cap. 43. et heritici quidem alienum ignem afferentes ad altare dei id est alienas doctrinas a celesti igne conburentur c. All these sayeth he doo fal from the trueth and the heretykes truely bryngynge straunge fyre to the aulter of God that is to saye straunge doctrine shal be brent with the heuenly fyre With suche lyke threatnynges in the same place to those that disobey the authoritie of the churche Lykewyse sainct Augustyne speakynge of the baptysme of chyldren and howe that sacrament can profyte them seynge many die before they know the effecte of the same affyrmeth that the faythe of those that brynge the chylde to christenynge shall profyte the childe that is broughte but for his probacion August de li. arb lib. 3. Cap. 23. he bryngeth thys Hoc commendat ecclesie saluberrima authoritas This thynge the mooste holsome aucthoritye of the churche doethe commende And euen wyth lyke reuerence the same saincte Augustyne dooth many tymes submytte all hys iudgementes Epist 7. In proemio Li. 3. De. Tri. and woorkes to the catholyke churche And fynally to declare hys iudgemente concernynge the aucthoritye of the catholyke churche He saieth thus Ego vero Euāgelio nō crederem nisi me catholicae Ecclesiae commoueret authoritas that is to say Truely August contra epist Manich. Capi. 3 I would not beleue the Gospell onles that the aucthoritye of the catholyke churche dyd moue me thereto And we ought here to consyder that after the ascension of our sauioure Christe for the space of certayne yeares there was no gospell at all wrytten but all thynges concernynge the faythfull christians were ruled and gouerned by the dyscyples of Christ beyng than the heades of the church Afterwarde we rede that dyuers of the dyscyples of Christe dyd wryte Gospelles as sainct Bartylmew Nicodemus and an other Gospel was called Euangelium Nazareorum But the authorite of the churche dyd onely admitte those fower euangelistes which nowe the whole churche dooth retayne Whyche thing might well seme maruelous seynge that bothe saincte Bartylmew and Nicodemus were present and dyd see the woorkes of Christ and also dyd here hys doctryne where as sainct Luke dyd learne hys gospell of saincte Paule and other and so lykewyse dyd S. marke but hereby it dooeth moost playnly appere that the catholike churche onely hathe this hye aucthorite to dyscerne scriptures and that scriptures allowed by the church shoulde not be refused of anye particulare persons Nowe therefore seynge that the catholyke churche bothe hathe delyuered to vs the scripture and in all ages and tymes hath bene taken of all Godly lerned men for the true iudge thereof I exhort and beseche all you good christen people that in all doutes opinions and controuersies ye would resort to the holy churche and there learne what the same catholyke church hath beleued and taught from time to time concernynge doutes or controuersies and yf wyth lowly and meke hartes ye wyll so doo surely the holy ghoste wyll instructe you he wyll comforte you and he wyl leade you into al trueth But yf in suche case ye wil fly from the catholike church aske coūsell of your selues or of any that dooth swarue from the sayd churche than for so muche as the holy ghost is not your guyde you shall fall from ignoraunce to errour and from doutyng and dysputyng to playne heresy and so from one to another to the vtter confusion An other aucthoriti of the churche of bothe body and soule Yet beside this great authoritie of the churche whereof you haue hearde there is an other gyuen by God of mooste hye excellencye that is power to forgyue and pardon the penitent synner and to punishe and correcte the obstinate or frowarde synner which power and aucthorite Leuit. 13. as it was fygured in the preesthood of the olde lawe as in Iudgynge of leprose persons and in punyshynge to death those that did not obey the priest euē so is it giuen by our sauiour Christ in very dede Deut. 17. in the gospel to his Apostles and to all theyr successours For after that our sauioure hadde rysen from deathe he came amonges hys Apostles and brethed vpon them and sayde Accipite spiritum sanctum quorum dimiseritis peccata Iohn 20. dimittuntur eis et quorum retinueritis retenta sunt That is take you the holy ghost whose sinnes you shall forgyue they are forgyuen to them and whose synnes you doo retayne they are retayned Whyche aucthorite by playne woordes gyuen by Christ though some hath or doo contemne and set at noughte Ciril in Iohn Lib. 12. capi 20. yet saincte Cyrill byddeth them cease to merueyle that Christ should giue suche power for he sayeth Certe absurdum non est peccata remitti posse ab illis qui spiritum sanctum in seipsis habeant
the thyrde time doest thou loue me and he aunswered and sayde Lorde thou knoweste all thinges thou knowest that I loue thee He sayde vnto him feede my shepe This processe of Scripture hath in it many circumstaunces to be noted The fyrst is that other Apostles beynge than present and amongest them euen he of whom Christ did euer make very much of that is to say S. Iohn yet our Sauiour Christ dyd dyrecte his speach and talke but to Peter onelye signifienge the matter wherof he dyd speake to appertayne to Peter chieflye and pryncipallye and not in so speciall a sorte to anye one of the apostles els Another and seconde circumstaunce to be here considered is that oure sauioure dyd aske Peter moost earnestly whether he loued him more than did the other apostles And the thyrde cyrcumstaunce is in that Christe dyd commytte both his lambes and his shepe vnto hym These cyrcumstaunces I saye and other suche like well considered doo conuince and clearelye proue that the hyghe charge ouer all the churche militant was especially committed to Peter And to this purpose maketh and serueth an other talke of our sauiour vnto S. Peter written in the .xvi. of Mathew where the texte is in this maner Venit autem Iesus in partes Caesareae Philippi Math. 16. interrogabat discipulos suos dicens Quem dicunt homines esse filium hominis At illi dixerūt Alij Ioannem Baptistam alij autem Heliam alij uero Hieremiam aut unum ex prophetis Dicit illis Iesus uos autem quem me esse dicitis Respondens Simon Petrus dixit Tu es Chrictus filius Dei uiui Respondens autem Iesus dixit ei Beatus es Simon Bariona quia caro sanguis non reuelauit tibi sed pater meus qui in coelis est Et ego dico tibi quia tu es Petrus super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam portae inferi non praeualebunt aduersus eam Et tibi dabo claues regni coelorum Et quodcunque ligaueris super terram erit ligatum in coelis quodcunque solueris super terram erit solutum in coelis That is to saye Iesus came into the coastes of Cesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples sayinge Whom doo men say the sonne of man to be And they aunswered some Iohn Baptiste some Helias some Hieremias or one of the prophetes Iesus sayd vnto them But who saye you that I am Then Simon Peter made aunswer and sayde Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuinge God And Iesus answered and sayd Blessed art thou Simon the sonne of Ioanna for fleshe and bloude hath not this reueiled and opened vnto the but my father whiche is in heauen And I saye vnto the that thou arte Peter or a rock and on this rocke I wyll buylde my church hell gates shal not preuayle agaynst it And I wyl gyue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdō of heauē whatsoeuer thou shalte bynde vpon earth shal be boūd also in heuē whatsoeuer thou shalt lose vpō the earth shal be loosed also in heauē These wordes of Christ were spokē longe before that Christe gaue that other cōmaūdemēt to Peter to feede hys flocke and that thynge whyche is perfourmed in the other woordes is here promysed in these woordes In the other woordes oure sauioure dothe presently put him in authoritie saying Feede my Lambes feede my shepe In these woordes he dooeth but promyse the sayde authority vnto him sayenge Vnto thee wyll I gyue the keyes of the kyngedome of heauen and what so euer thou loosest or byndest in earth shal be loosed or bounde in heauen The lyke of this did our sauiour neuer speake to any one of the Apostles els seuerally but onely generally For generally to Peter and to the reste being al together sauing Thomas who was absent Christ sayed the woordes whyche are writtē in the .xx. Iohn 20. of Iohn it is to witte Receyue you the holy ghoste whose synnes ye remyt they are remytted and whose synnes ye retaine Math. 18. they are retained And in the .xviii. of Mathew Christ sayeth vnto the twelue What so euer thynges you shal bynde vpon the earthe shal be bounde also in heauen whatsoeuer you shal lose vpō the earth shal be losed also in heauē Yf our sauiour Christ had not intended to gyue vnto Peter a speciall authoritie aboue the rest what nede was there to speake this seuerallye vnto Peter seing he had spoken it generally to them all before And what thing ment he els when in the presence of al the twelue he promised to gyue vnto Peter the keyes of the kingdome of heauē sauing a speciall priuilige or prerogatyue to Peter Our Sauiour through his heauenly wysedome perceyuynge that it is most necessarye one to be ouer a hole multitude specially being a multytude congregated of so infinite a number of people and of so sondry nations as is the catholyke churche did appoynte S. Peter to that offyce and Peter hauinge receyued such charge at Christes handes did incontinentely practyse and exercise the same and all the rest of the Apostles dyd gyue place vnto him Act. i. And therefore in the first of the Actes it is written howe that after Christes ascension incontinently S. Peter rose vp in the myddest of the faythfull and moued them to goo to the election of one that should succede in Iudas rowme which offyce he vndoubtedly woulde not haue taken vpō him but that our sauiour Christ had Authorised him in such sorte as is before declared In the .ii. Actes 2. of the Actes it is wrytten howe that in the presence of all the Apostles S. Peter tooke vpon him to speake in all their names to the people on whitsonday in the morning streighte after that they had receyued the holye Ghoste in the likenes of clouē tunges In the third of the Actes it is writtē Actes 3. how that S. Peter healed a lame mā which was lame from his mothers wombe and that when the people wondred at so straunge a myracle the sayd Peter made an oration vnto them Act. 4.5.6 In the fourthe of the Actes and in the fyfte and syxt there is the lyke and in manye other places of the same booke All whyche places of scrypture oughte to perswade euery godlye harte to thynke that oure sauiour dyd gyue vnto sainct Peter that authoritie aboue all the reste of the Apostles vpon hys hoole churche for an vnytye and good order to be kepte in the same And yet for your better contentation herein you shal here the authorities of the Aunciente fathers in this behalfe Origene Origenes a greeke wryter whyche was wythin two hundred yeares after Christe in hys exposition made vpon the .vi. Chapiter of S. Paules Epistle to the Romaynes wryteth thus Petro cum summa rerum de pascendis ouibus traderetur et super ipsum tanquam super terram fundaretur ecclesia nullius confessio