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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

stricken with a foule leprosy Other wer stinged to death with wonderful straunge firy serpentes Other wer sore plagued so that ther was killed in one day the numbre of fourtene thousand and seuen hundred for rebellion agaynst them whō God had appoynted to be in aucthoritie Absalon also rebelling against his father king Dauid was punished with a straunge and notable death And lette no man thynke that he can escape vnpunished that cōmitteth treason conspiracy or rebellion agaynste his souereigne Lorde the Kynge though he commit thesame neuer so secretly either in thought woorde or dede neuer so priuely in hys priuie chambre by hymselfe or openly communicatyng and consultyng with other For treason will not be hid treason will out at the length God will haue that moste detestable vice bothe opened and punished for that it is so directly against hys ordinaunce and agaynste hys hygh principall iudge and anoynted in yearth The violence and iniury that is committed against aucthoritie is cōmitted agaynste God the common weale and the whole realme whiche God wyll haue knowen and condignely punished one way or other For it is notably wrytten of the Wiseman in Scripture in the boke called Ecclesiastes wishe the Kyng no euyll in thy thought or speake no hurt of hym in thy priuy chābre for a byrde of the aire shall betraye thy voyce and with her fethers shall she bewraye thy wordes These lessons exāples are writē for our learnyng Let vs al therfore feare the moste detestable vice of rebelliō euer knowyng and remembring that he that resisteth commō aucthoritie resisteth God and his ordinaunce as it may be proued by many other mo places of holy Scripture And here let vs take hede that we vnderstād not these or suche other like places whiche so streightly commaunde obedience to superiors and so streightly punisheth rebellion and disobedience to thesame to be meant in any cōdiciō of the pretensed power of the bishop of Rome For truely the scripture of God alloweth no suche vsurped power full of enormities abusions blasphemies But the true meanyng of these and suche places be to extol and set furthe Gods true ordinaunce and y e aucthoritie of Gods anointed kynges and of their officers appoynted vnder them And concernyng the vsurped power of the bishop of Rome which he most wrongfully chalengeth as the successor of Christe Peter we maye easely perceiue how false feined and forged it is not onely in that it hath no sufficient grounde in holy scripture out also by the fruites and doctrine therof For our sauior Christ s. Peter teacheth most earnestly and agreably obedience to kynges as to the chief supreme rulers in this world next vnder God but the bishop of Rome teacheth immunities priuiledges exempciōs and disobedience moste clearly agaynst Christes doctrine and s. Peters He ought therefore rather to be called Antichriste the succcssor of the Scribes Phariseis then Christes vicar or s. Peters successor seyng that not only in this poynt but also in other weightie matters of Christian religiō in matters of remission of synnes of saluacion he teacheth so directly agaynst both s. Peter against our sauior Christe Who not onely taught obediēce to kynges but also practised obedience in their cōuersaciō liuyng For we rede that they both paied tribute to the kyng And also we rede that the holye virgyn Mary mother to our sauior Christ and Ioseph who was taken for his father at the emperors cōmaundemente went to the citie of Dauid named Bethleem to be taxed emōg other to declare their obedience to the magistrates for Gods ordinaunces sake And here let vs not forget y e blessed virgin Maries obedience for although she was highly in Gods fauor and Christes naturall mother was also great with chylde that same time so nigh her trauaile that she was deliuered in her iourney yet she gladly without any excuse or grudgyng for cōscience sake did take that cold foule winter iourney beyng in the meane ceason so poore that she lay in the stable and there she was deliuered of Christ. And according to thesame lo how s. Peter agreeth writing by expresse wordes in his first Epistle submit your selfes saieth he vnto kinges as vnto the chief heddes or vnto rulers as vnto them that are sent of hym for the punishment of euill doers for laude of thē that do well for so is the wil of God I ●ede not to expoūd these wordes they be so plain of thēselfes S. Peter doth not say submit your selfes vnto me as supreme hed of the Churche neither he saith submit your selfes frō time to time to my successors in Rome but he saith submit your sels vnto your kyng your supreme head and vnto those that he appoynteth in aucthoritie vnder hym For that ye shal so shew your obedience it is the wil of God God will that you be in subiection to your hed and king That is Gods ordinaunce Gods cōmaundement Gods holy will that the whole body of euery realme and al the membres partes of thesame shalbe subiect to their hed their kynge and that as S. Peter writeth for the Lordes sake and as S. Paule writeth for consciēce sake and not for feare onely Thus we learne by the worde of God to yeld to oure kyng that is dewe to oure kyng that is honor obedience paimentes of dewe taxes customes tributes subsidies loue and feare Thus we knowe partly our bounden dueties to commō aucthoritie nowe let vs learne to accomplishe thesame And let vs moste instauntly and hartely praye to God the onely aucthor of all aucthoritie for all them that be in aucthoritie according as S. Paule willeth writyng thus to Timothe in his first Epistle I exhort therfore that aboue all thynges prayers supplicacions intercessions and geuing of thankes be doen for all men for kynges and for all that bee in aucthoritie that we maye liue a quiete and a peaceable life with al godlines and honestie for that is good and accepted in the sight of God our sauior Here s. Paule maketh an earnest and an especiall exhortacion concernyng geuyng of thankes and praier for kynges and rulers saiyng aboue al thynges as he might say in any wise principally chiefly let prayer be made for kynges Let vs hartely thāke God for his greate and excellent benefite and prouidēce cōcernyng the state of kynges Let vs pray for thē that they may haue Gods fauor and Gods proteccion Let vs pray that they may euer in al thinges haue God before their eyes Let vs pray that they may haue wisedom strength iustice clemēcie zeale to Gods glory to Gods veritie to christian soules and to the common wealth Let vs praye that they maye rightly vse their swourde and aucthoritie for the maintenaunce defence of the catholique faith conteined in holy scripture and of their good and honest subiectes and for the feare and punishement of

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