:

OR

HOMILIES

APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES

IN THE TIME OF

QUEEN ELIZABETH

OF FAMOUS MEMORY.

IN TWO PARTS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

THE CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL

AND

THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

FOURTH EDITION.

OXFORD,

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

MDCCCXVI.

LOAN STACK

THE

PREFA CE,

BX5133 AIA 3.

As it was published in the Year 1562.

1816

CONSIDERING how neceffary it is, that the

Word of God, which is the only food of the foul, and that most excellent light that we muft walk by, in this our most dangerous pilgrimage, fhould at all convenient times be preached unto the people, that thereby they may both learn their duty towards God, their Prince, and their neighbours, according to the mind of the Holy Ghost, expreffed in the Scriptures, and alfo to avoid the manifold enormities which heretofore by false doctrine have crept into the Church of God; and how that all they which are appointed Ministers have not the gift of preaching sufficiently to inftruct the people, which is committed unto them, whereof great inconveniences might rife, and ignorance ftill be maintained, if some honeft remedy be not speedily found and provided: the Queen's most excellent Majefty, tendering the fouls health of her loving subjects, and the quieting of their confciences in the chief and principal points of Chriftian religion, and willing alfo by the true fetting forth and pure declar

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