Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547) and a Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570) : : A Critical Edition / / Ronald Bond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bond, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Along with the Book of Common Prayer and the Articles of Religion, the first book of homilies (1547) is the major legacy of the Edwardian Reformation. Its twelve sermons articulated a doctrinal standard, assisted the parochial clergy in their preaching, and served the religious establishment as a means of propaganda. The sermons are plain but sophisticated expression of the interests of the early protestants in England. They are concerned with not only the primacy of the Bible and the relationship of faith to good works, but also matters of Christian conduct such as sexual morality, swearing, the attitude to death, charity, and obedience. Since they were required reading from most English pulpits these homilies were probably heard by writers as different as Shakespeare, Spenser, and Donne and eventually influenced John Wesley in the eighteenth century, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Cardinal Newman in the nineteenth.The first book of homilies was joined by a second in 1563 and by the long, polemical homily against rebellion. The introduction traces the development and decline of interest in the homilies both as aids for preachers and as statements of reformed doctrine. In addition it analyses the themes, organizations, and styles of the homilies presented. The text preserves the original spelling and is accompanied by brief explanatory notes and a critical apparatus.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. A Two-Edged Sword: The History of the Tudor Homilies -- 2 “Lean and Flashy Songs”: The Themes, Organization, and Style of the First Book of Homilies -- 3 The Northern Rising and Against Rebellion -- 4 The Texts -- Certayne Sermons or Homelies (1547) -- A Table of the Sermones or Homelies Conteined in This Presente Volume -- The Preface [1547] -- The Preface [1559] -- 1. A Fruitfull Exhortation to the Readyng and Knowledge of Holy Scripture -- 2. An Homelie of the Miserie of Al Mankynd, and of Hys Condempnacion to Death Everlastyng, by Hys Awne Synne -- 3. An Homelie of the Salvacion of Mankynd, by Onely Christ Our Savior, from Synne and Death Everlastyng -- 4. A Short Declaration of the True, Lively and Christian Faithe -- 5. An Homelie, or Sermon, of Good Woorkes Annexed unto Faithe -- 6. An Homelie of Christian Love and Charitie -- 7. Against Swearyng and Perjury -- 8. A Sermon, How Daungerous a Thynge It Is To Declyne from God -- 9. An Exhortation agaynst the Feare of Death -- 10. An Exhortacion concernyng Good Ordre and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates -- 11. An Homelie of Whoredome and Unclennesse -- 12 An Homelie agaynst Contencion and Braulynge -- An Homelie against Disobedience and Wylfull Rebellion