THE
TWO BOOKS
OF
HOMILIES
APPOINTED TO BE READ
IN CHURCHES
Oxford:
At the University Press
M.DCCC.LIX.
Word Processed 1999
CONTENTS
1. Of the First Book of Homilies vii
2. Of the Second Book of Homilies xiv
3. Of the Homilies severally xxvi
4. Of this Edition xxxviii
A Descriptive Catalogue of Editions of the Homilies to the end of the seventeenth century:
The First Book separately l
The Second Book separately lxii
The Homily for the Rogation Days separately lxix
The Homily against Rebellion separately lxix
The Two Books uniformly, but with separate Titles and Registers lxxi
The Two Books in one volume lxxiii
A List of the Copies used for this Edition lxxvii
A List of the Editions from which certain Authors are quoted in the Notes lxxix
Additions and Corrections lxxx
The Title of the First Book of Homilies as set forth by Queen Elizabeth 1
The Table of the same 2
The Preface to the same 3
A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture, in two Parts 7
A Sermon of the Misery of all Mankind and of his Condemnation to Death Everlasting by his own Sin, in two Parts 16
A Sermon of the Salvation of Mankind by only Christ our Saviour from Sin and Death Everlasting, in three Parts 24
A Short Declaration for the True, Lively, and Christian Faith, in three Parts 36
A Sermon of Good Works annexed unto Faith, in three Parts 48
A Sermon of Christian Love and Charity, in two Parts 66
Against Swearing and Perjury, in two Parts 73
A Sermon, how Dangerous a Thing it is to Fall from God, in two Parts 81
An Exhortation against the Fear of Death, in three Parts 91
An Exhortation concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates, in three Parts 105
A Sermon against Whoredom and Uncleanness, in three Parts 118
A Sermon against Contention and Brawling, in three Parts 134
Notice of Homilies intended to be set forth 147
The Title of the Second Book of Homilies as first published 149
An Admonition to all Ministers Ecclesiastical 151
The Table of the Homilies in the Second Book 152
An Homily of the Right Use of the Church or Temple of God, and of the Reverence due unto the same, in two Parts 153
An Homily against Peril of Idolatry and Superfluous Decking of Churches.
The First Part 167
The Second Part of the Homily against Peril of Idolatry 180
The Third Part of the Homily against Images and the Worshipping of them, containing the Confutation of the principal arguments which are used to be made for the Maintenance of Images: which Part may serve to instruct the Curates themselves, or Men of good Understanding 213
An Homily for Repairing and Keeping Clean and Comely Adorning of Churches 273
An Homily of Good Works, the first of Fasting, in two Parts 279
An Homily against Gluttony and Drunkenness 297
An Homily against Excess of Apparel 308
An Homily or Sermon concerning Prayer, in three Parts 320
An Homily of the Place and Time of Prayer, in two Parts 339
An Homily wherein is declared that Common Prayer and Sacraments ought to be ministered in a Tongue that is understanded of the Hearers 352
An Information for them which take Offence at certain places of the Holy Scripture, in two Parts 368
An Homily of Almsdeeds and Mercifulness toward the Poor and Needy, in three Parts 382
An Homily or Sermon concerning the Nativity and Birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ 400
An Homily for Good Friday, concerning the Death and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ 411
The Second Homily concerning the Death and Passion of our Saviour Christ 419
An Homily of the Resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ. For Easter Day 429
An Homily of the worthy Receiving and Reverent Esteeming of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, in two Parts 439
An Homily concerning the Coming Down of the Holy Ghost and the Manifold Gifts of the same. For Whitsunday. 453
The Second Part of the Homily concerning the Holy Ghost, dissolving this doubt, whether all men do rightly challenge to themselves the Holy Ghost, or no 461
An Homily for the Days of Rogation Week. That all Good Things cometh from God. In three Parts 470
An Exhortation to be spoken to such Parishes where they use their Perambulations in Rogation Week for the Oversight of the Bounds and Limits of their Towns, called the Fourth Part of the Sermon for Rogation Week 494
An Homily of the State of Matrimony 500
An Homily against Idleness 516
An Homily of Repentance and True Reconciliation unto God, in three Parts 525
An Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion, in six Parts 550
The Prayer to be used at the end of each Part of the Homily against Rebellion 560
A Thanksgiving for the Suppression of the last Rebellion 599
Index of Texts of Scripture 601
General Index 611
Preface to Word Processed Edition
The following adjustments have been made.
The numbering of the prefatory pages has been changed from Roman numerals to Arabic preceded by the letter "R".
The text of the Homilies in the 1859 edition contained line numbering in the outside margins at every fifth line. In some cases that editor made reference to portions of the text by line number. In this word processed edition, the numbering of lines has not been retained due to automatic line wrapping. Lines containing text referenced by the former line numbers is now *between asterisks* on the pages referred to.
Margin notes have been mostly converted to footnotes preceding the lettered footnotes and beginning with the words "Margin Notes:" unless they are sufficiently short, ungrouped Bible citations, which have been inserted within the text at the reference point within [square brackets], and with "Ibid." replaced by a repetition of the name of the book cited.
Footnotes that previously were continued from one page to another are now kept whole on the starting page.
In the interest of space and readability, all Bible chapter citations have been converted from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals followed by a colon. This is also true of selected other citations when a Roman numeral, e.g., for a volume number, was quite long.
At points where one or more characters in the text copy used as the source for this project were unreadable, they are represented by an equal number of _ underlines.