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A03519	Certayne sermons, or homelies appoynted by the kynges Maiestie, to be declared and redde, by all persones, vicars, or curates, euery Sondaye in their churches, where they haue cure. Anno 1547.; Certain sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches. Book 1.	Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.; Church of England.	1547 (1547)	STC 13640; ESTC S110029	106,479	184

our wil ▪ hartes ▪ might and power to serue him in all good dedes obeyng his commaundementes during our lifes to seke in al thinges his glory and honor not our sensuall pleasures vaynglory euermore dreadynge willingly to offende suche a merciful God louyng redemer in worde thought or dede And the sayde benefites of God depely considered do moue vs for his sake also to be euer redy to geue our selfes to our neighbors and asmuch as lyeth in vs ▪ to study with all oure indeuour to doo good to euery man These be the fruites of the true faythe to do good asmuche as lieth in vs to euery man And aboue all thynges and in all thinges to auaunce the glory of God of whom only we haue our sanctificacion iustificacion saluacion and redempcion ▪ To whome be euer glory prayse and honor ▪ worlde without ende AMEN ¶ A short declaration of the true liuely and Christian Faithe THE firste entrie vnto God good christian people is through faith whereby as it is declared in the laste Sermon we be iustifyed before God And least any mā should be deceyued for lacke of right vnderstanding thereof it is diligently to be noted that faythe is taken in the scripture two manes of wayes There is one fayth whiche in scripture is called a dead faythe whiche bryngeth furth no good workes but is idle barrain and vnfruitefull And this faith by the holy Apostle sainct Iames is compared to the fayth of deuilles which beleue God to be true and iuste and tremble for feare yet they do nothynge well but al euill And suche a maner of fayth haue the wicked and naughtie thristian people whiche confesse God as saincte Paule sayeth in their mouthe but denye hym in their deedes beynge abhominable and withoute the righte fayth and to all good workes reproueable And this faith is a persuasiō and belief in mānes harte wherby he knoweth that there is a God and assenteth vnto all trueth of Gods moste holye worde conteyned in holy scripture So that it consisteth onely in beleuing of the woorde of God that it is true And thys is not properlye called faythe But as he that readeth Cesars Commentaries beleuyng thesame to be true hath thereby a knowledge of Cesars lyfe and noble actes because he beleueth the history of Cesar yet it is not properly saied that he beleueth in Cesar of whome he loketh for no helpe nor benefite Euen so he that beleueth that all that is spoken of God in the Bible is true and yet liueth so vngodly that he cānot loke to enioy the promises and benefites of God although it maye be saide that such a man hath a faith belief to y e wordes of God yet it is not properly saied that he beleueth in God or hath suche a fayth truste in God wherby he may surely loke for grace mercy eternall lyfe at Gods hand but rather for indignacion punishment according to the merites of hys wicked life For as it is written in a boke entituled to be of Didimus Alexādrinus forasmuch as faith without workes is ded it is not now faith as a ded man is not a man This ded faith therfore is not y t sure and substancial faith which saueth synners Another fayth there is in scripture whiche is not as the foresayde faith idle vnfruitfull and dead but worketh by charitie as S. Paule declareth Gal. v. Whiche as the other vayn faith is called a ded faithe so maye thys be called a quicke or liuely faith And this is not onely the cōmon belefe of the Articles of our faith but it is also a sure truste and confidence of the mercy of God through our lorde Iesus Christ and a stedfast hope of all good thynges to be receiued at Gods hande that although we through infirmitie or temptaciō of our ghostly enemie do fall from him by synne yet if we returne agayn vnto hym by true repentaunce that he wyll forgeue forget oure offences for hys sonnes sake our sauior Iesus Christ will make vs inheritors with him of his euerlastyng kyngdom and that in the meane tyme vntyll that kyngdom come he will ●e our protector and defendor in all perils daungers whatsoeuer do chaunce and that though somtyme he doth sende vs sharpe aduersitie yet y t euermore he wilbe a louyng father vnto vs correctyng vs for our synne but not withdrawyng hys mercy finally from vs if we trust in hym and commit our selfes wholy vnto hym hang onely vpon hym and call vpon hym ready to obey and serue hym Thys is the true liuely and vnfayned christian faith and is not in the mouthe and outward profession onely but it liueth and stirreth inwardly in the hart And this faythe is not without hope and truste in God nor without the loue of God and of our neyghbors nor without the feare of God nor without y e desyre to heare Gods worde and to folowe thesame in eschewyng euill and doyng gladly all good workes Thys faith as sainct Paule describeth it is the sure ground and foundaciō of the benefites whiche we ought to loke for and trust to receyue of God a certificat sure expectacion of them although they yet sensiblie appere not vnto vs. And after he saith he that cōmeth to God must beleue both that he is that he is a mercifull rewarder of wel doers And nothyng cōmendeth good men vnto God so muche as this assured faith trust in him Of this faithe iij. thinges are specially to be noted First that this faithe doth not lye ded in the hart but is liuely and fruitful in bringing furth good workes Second y ● without it cā no good workes be doen y t shalbe acceptable pleasaūt to God Thirde what maner of good workes thei be y t this faith doth bryng furth For the first as the light cannot be hid but will shewe furthe it self at one place or other So a true faith cannot be kept secret but when occasion is offered it will breake out shew it self by good workes And as the liuyng body of a mā euer exerciseth suche thinges as belongeth to a naturall liuyng body for nourishement preseruacion of thesame as it hath nede opportunitie and occasion euen so the soule that hath a liuely faith in it wyl be doyng alwaye some good worke whiche shall declare that it is liuyng and will not be vnoccupied Therfore when men heare in the scriptures so high cōmendacions of faythe that it maketh vs to please God to liue with God and to be the children of God if then they phantasie ▪ that thei be set at libertie frō doyng all good workes and may liue as thei liste thei trifle with God deceyue themselfes And it is a manifest token that thei be farre from hauing the true and liuely faith also farre from knowledge what true faith meaneth For the very sure liuelye christian faith is not

cōmuni they deluded the worlde perswadyng that notwitstandyng all their possessions riches yet they obserued their vowe were in wilful pouertie But for al their riches thei might neither healpe father nor mother nor other y t were in deede very nedye and poore without the licence of their father Abbot Prior or warden And yet they might take of euery mā but thei might not geue ought to any man no not to theim whom the lawes of God bound them to helpe And so through their tradicions and rules the lawes of God could beare no rule with theim And therefore of theim might be moste truely sayed that which Christ spake vnto the Pharises you breake the commaundementes of God by your tradicions you honor God with youre lippes but you hartes be farre frō him And the longer praiers thei vsed by day by night vnder pretense of suche holynes to get the fauor of Widowes other simple folkes y t they might syng Trentals and seruyce for theyr husbādes and frendes admitte them into their suffrages the more truely is verefyed of theim the saying of Christ wo be to you Scribes and Phariseis Hypocrites for you deuoure Widowes houses vnder coloure of long praiers therfore your dampnacion shalbe the greater Wo be to you Scribes Phariseis Hipocrites for you go about by sea and by land to make mo Nouices and newe brethren and when they be admitted of your secte you make them the chyldren of helle worse then your selfes be Honor be to God who did put light in the harte of his faithful true minister of moste famous memory Kynge Henry the .viij. and gaue hym the knowledge of hys worde and an earnest affection to seke his glory and to put awaye all suche Supersticious and Pharisaicall sectes by Antichrist inuēted and set vp agaynst the true worde of God and glory of hys moste blessed name as he gaue the lyke spirite vnto the moste noble and famous Prynces Iosaphat Iosias and Ezechyas God graunte all vs the Kynges hyghnesse faythfull true subiectes to fede of the swete and sauorie breade of Gods awne woorde and as Christ commaunded to eschewe all oure Pharisaicall and Papistical leuen of mans feyned religion Whiche although it were before God moste abhominable and contrary to Gods cōmaundementes and Christes pure religiō yet it was extolled to be a moste Godly lyfe highest state of perfection As though a man might be more Godly and more perfecte by kepyng the rules tradicions and professiōs of men then by kepynge the holy commaundementes of God And briefly to passe ouer the vngodly counterfet religions let vs reherse some other kyndes of Papisticall supersticions and abuses as of Beades of Lady Psalters Rosaries of .xv. Oos of sainct Bernardes Uerses of sainct Agathes letters of Purgatory of Masses satisfactory of Stacions and Iubilies of feyned Reliques of halowed Beades Belles Breade Water palmes Candelles Fyre and suche other of Supersticious fastynges of Fraternities of Pardons with suche lyke merchaundyse whiche were so estemed and abused to the great preiudice of Gods glory and commaūdemētes that they were made moste high and moste holy thynges whereby to atteyn to the eternall lyfe or remission of sinne Yea also vayne inuēcions vnfruictfull Ceremonies and vngodly Lawes Decrees and Counsayles of Rome were in suche wyse aduaūced that nothyng was thought comparable in aucthoritie wisedom learnynge and Godlynes vnto them So y t the lawes of Rome as thei sayed were to be receyued of all men as the foure Euāgelistes to the which all lawes of Princes must geue place And y e lawes of God also p●rily were omitted and lesse estemed that the sayde lawes decrees and Counsayles with theyr tradiciōs and Ceremonies myght be more duely obserued had in greater reuerence Thus was the people through ignoraūce so blynded with the goodly shewe and apparaunce of those thynges that they thought y e obseruyng of them to be a more holynesse a more perfecte seruice and honoryng of God and more pleasyng to God then the kepyng of Gods cōmaundementes Such hath been the corrupt inclinaciō of man euer supersticiously geuen to make new honorynge of God of hys awn hedde and then to haue more affection and deuocion to obserue that then to searche out Gods holy cōmaundementes and to kepe them And furthermore to take Gods cōmaundementes for mennes cōmaundemētes and mennes cōmaundementes for Gods cōmaundementes yea and for the highest and moste perfect and holy of all Gods commaundemētes And so was all confused that scant well learned men and but a small numbre of them knewe or at the least would knowe and durst affirme the truth to separate Gods commaundementes from the commaundemētes of men wherupon dyd growe muche error Supersticion Idolatry vayne religion preposterous iudgement greate contencion with all vngodly liuyng Wherfore as you haue any zeale to the right and pure honoryng of God as you haue any regard to your awn soules to the life that is to come which is both without payn and without end applie your selfes chiefly aboue all thyng to reade and to heare Gods worde marke diligētly therin what hys wyll is you shall do and with all youre endeuor applye your selfes to folowe thesame First you must haue an assured faythe in God geue youre selfes wholy vnto hym loue hym in prosperite aduersitie and dread to offende hym euermore Then for hys sake loue all men frendes and fooes because they be his creaciō and Image redemed by Christ as ye are Caste in your mindes how you maye do good vnto all men vnto your powers hurt no man Obey al your superiors and gouernors serue youre masters faithfully and diligently aswell in theyr absence as in theyr presence not for dread of punishment onely but for cōscience sake knowyng that you are bound so to do by Gods commaundementes Disobey not your fathers mothers but honor thē helpe thē please thē to your power Oppresse not kil not beat not neyther slaunder nor hate any mā But loue all men speake well of al men helpe succor euery mā as you maye yea euen your enemies that hate you that speake euil of you and that do hurt you Take no mās goodes nor couete your neyghbors goodes wrongfully but cōtent your selfes with y t which ye get truely also bestowe your awne goodes charitably as nede case requyreth Flee all Idolatrye Withcraft periury cōmit no maner of adultery fornicaciō nor other vnchastnesse in wil nor in dede with any other mannes wyfe wydowe mayde or other wyse And trauailynge continually durynge your lyfe thus in the obseruynge the commaundementes of God wherein consisteth the pure principal and direct honour of God and which wrought in faythe God hath ordeyned to be the righte trade and pathe waye vnto heauen you shall not fayle as Christe hath promised to come to that blessed and eternall lyfe where you shall liue in glory