PRELIMINARIES: BOOK II
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The Elizabethan Homilies 1623
STC 13675
VOLUME 2.1
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THE SECOND TOME
OF
HOMILIES,
OF SUCH MATTERS
AS WERE PROMISED, AND
entitled in the former part of
Homilies.
Set out by the authority of the late Queens Majesty:
and to be read in every Parish Church agreeably.
LONDON
Printed by John Bill, Printer to the Kings most
Excellent Majesty. 1623.
THE TABLE OF
Homilies ensuing.
I. OF the right use of the Church.
II. Against peril of Idolatry.
III. For repairing and keeping clean the Church.
IIII. Of good works. And first of Fasting.
V. Against gluttony and drunkenness.
VI. Against excess of apparel.
VII. An homily of Prayer.
VIII. Of the place and time of Prayer.
IX. Of Common Prayer and Sacraments
X. An information of them which take offence at certain places of holy
Scripture.
XI. Of alms deeds.
XII. Of the Nativity.
XIII. Of the Passion for good Friday.
XIIII. Of the Resurrection for Easter day.
XV. Of the worthy receiving of the Sacrament.
XVI. An Homily concerning the coming down of the holy Ghost, for
Whitsunday.
XVII. An Homily for Rogation week.
XVIII. Of the state of Matrimony.
XIX. Against Idleness.
XX. Of Repentance and true Reconciliation unto God.
XXI. An Homily against disobedience and wilful rebellion.
AN ADMONITION TO
all Ministers Ecclesiastical.
FOR that the Lord doth require of his servant, whom he hath set over
his household, to show both faithfulness and prudence in his office:
it shall be necessary that ye above all other doe behave yourselves
most faithfully and diligently in your so high a function: that is,
aptly, plainly, and distinctly to read the sacred Scriptures,
diligently to instruct the youth in their Catechism, gravely and
reverently to minister his most holy Sacraments, prudently also to
choose out such Homilies as be most meet for the time, and for the
more agreeable instruction of the people committed to your charge,
with such discretion, that where the Homily may appear too long for
one reading, to divide the same to be read part in the forenoon, and
part in the afternoon. And where it may so chance some one or other
Chapter of the Old Testament to fall in order to be read upon the
Sundays or Holy days, which were better to be changed with some other
of the New Testament of more edification, it shall be well done to
spend your time to consider well of such Chapters before hand, whereby
your prudence and diligence in your office may appear, so that your
people may have cause to glorify God for you, and be the readier to
embrace your labors, to your better commendation, to the discharge of
your consciences and their own.
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