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A33073 The Church of England as by law established being the very doctrine and express words of the homilies against popery.; Certain sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches. Selections. 1685 (1685) Wing C4191; ESTC R43032 10,456 4

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THE Church of England As by LAW Established Being the very DOCTRINE and express Words of the HOMILIES against POPERY The thirty fifth Article of the Church of England The second Book of Homilies doth contain a godly and wholsome Doctrine and necessary for these Times as doth the former Book of Homilies which were set forth in time of Edward VI. And therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers diligently and distinctly that they may be understood of the people And to this the whole Clergy of England have willingly and ex animo subscribed for above this hundred and twenty years unto this very day Homily for Witsunday concerning the Coming down of the Holy Ghost in the likeness of cloven Tongues p. 207. So that if any man be a dumb Christian not professing his Faith openly but cloaking and colouring himself for fear of danger in time to come he giveth men occasion justly and with good Conscience to doubt lest he have not the Grace of the Holy Ghost within him because he is tongue-ty'd and cannot speak Vol. 1. p. 50. For whosoever forsaketh the Truth for love or displeasure of any man or for lucre and profit to himself doth forsake Christ and with Judas betray him I. That Ignorance is the Mother of Popery BY Ignorance the Jewish Clergy induced the common people to ask the delivery of Barabbas the seditious Murderer and to sue for the cruel Crucifying of our Saviour Christ for that he rebuked the Ambition Superstition and other Vices of the High Priests and Clergy p. 313. London Edition Aº 1623. For as our Saviour Christ testifieth that those that Crucified him wist not what they did so doth the holy Apostle St. Paul say If they had known if they had not been ignorant they would never have Crucified the Lord of Glory But they knew not what they did Our Saviour Christ himself also foreshewed that it should come to pass by Ignorance that those who should persecute and murder his true Apostles and Disciples should think they did God acceptable Sacrifice and good Service as it is also verified even at this day And in this Ignorance have the Bishops of Rome kept the people of God especially the common sort by no means so much as by withdrawing of the Word of God from them and by keeping it under the Vail of an unknown strange Tongue For as it served the ambitious humour of the Bishops of Rome to compel all Nations to use the natural Language of the City of Rome where they were Bishops which shewed a certain acknowledging of Subjection unto them So yet served it much more their crafty purpose thereby to keep all people so blind that they not knowing what they prayed what they believed nor what they were commanded by God might take all their Commandments for God's For as they would not suffer the Holy Scriptures or Church-Service to be used or had in any other Tongue than the Latin so were very few even of the most simple people taught the Lord's Prayer the Articles of the Faith and the ten Commandments otherwise than in Latin which they understood not By which universal Ignorance all men were ready to believe whatsoever they said and to do whatsoever they commanded II. The pretended Reasons for denying the People the free use of the Holy Scriptures The great Utility and Profit that Christian Men and Women may take if they will by hearing and reading the Holy Scriptures no Heart can sufficiently conceive p. 143 much less is my Tongue able with words to express wherefore Satan our enemy seeing the Scriptures to be the very means and right way to bring the people to the true knowledge of God and that Christian Religion is greatly furthered by diligent hearing and reading of them he also percieving what an hindrance and let they be to him and his Kingdom doth what he can to drive the reading of them out of God's Church And for that end he hath alwayes stirred up in one place or other cruel Tyrants sharp Persecutors and extream Enemies unto God and his infallible Truth to pull with violence the Holy Bibles out of the peoples hands and have most spightfully destroyed and consumed the same to ashes in the Fire pretending most untruly that the much hearing and reading of Gods Word is the cause of Heresie carnal Liberty and the Subversion of all good Orders But the knowledge of God and of our selves is so far from being an occasion of Evil that it is the readiest yea the only means to bridle carnal Liberty and to kill all our fleshly affections And the ordinary way to attain this knowledge is with diligence to hear and read the Holy Scriptures III. Concerning the singular Profitableness of Lay-men's Books which with them do supply the place of the Holy Scriptures For what Lessons of Contempt of Riches and Vanity of this World can such books so besmeared with Gold set with precious Stones covered with Silks teach What Lessons of Soberness and Chastity can our p. ●3 Women learn of those pictur'd Scriptures with their nice Apparel and wanton looks But away for shame with these colour'd Cloaks of Idolatry of the Books and Scriptures of Images and Pictures to teach Idiots nay to make Idiots and stark fools and Beasts of Christians Do men I pray you when they have the same Books at home with them run on Pilgrimage to seek like Books at Rome Compostella or Jerusalem to be taught of them when they have the same Books at home Do men reverence some Books and despise and set light by others of the same sort Do men kneel before their Books light Candle at Noon-time burn Incense offer up Gold and Silver and other Gifts to their Books do men either feign or believe Miracles to be wrought by their Books I am sure that the new Testament of our Saviour Jesus Christ containing the Word of Life is a more lively express and true Image of our Saviour than all carved graven molten and painted Images in the World be and yet none of all these things be done to that Book or Scripture of the Gospel of our Saviour which be done to Images and pictures the Books and Scriptures of Lay-men and Idiots as they call them Wherefore call them what they list it is most evident by their deeds that they make of them no other Books nor Scripture than such as teach most filthy and horrible Idolatry as the users of such Books daily prove by continual practising the same O Books and Scriptures in the which the Devilish School-master Satan hath penn'd the lewd Lessons of wicked Idolatry for his dastardly Disciples and Schollars to behold read and learn to God's most high dishonour and their most horrible Damnation Have not we been much bound think you to those which should have taught us the Truth out of God's Book and his holy Scripture that they have shut up that Book and Scripture from us