The Elizabethan Homilies 1623

an old-spelling edition of Short-Title Catalogue 13675
edited by Ian Lancashire

Renaissance Electronic Texts, Volume 1, Version 1
University of Toronto

copyright 1994 Ian Lancashire

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This edition has been based on the text facsimile in Certaine Sermons, ed. Mary Ellen Rickey and Thomas B. Stroup (Gainesville, Florida: Scholars' Facsimiles, 1968).

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Table of Contents

• Editor's Introduction
  
  
• Volume 1 (1547)
  
  
  1. Preliminaries.
     
     
  2. I. A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading of Holy Scripture.
     
     
  3. II. Of the Misery of all Mankind.
     
     
  4. III. Of the Salvation of all Mankind.
     
     
  5. IV. Of the True and Lively Faith.
     
     
  6. V. Of Good Works.
     
     
  7. VI. Of Christian Love and Charity.
     
     
  8. VII. Against Swearing and Perjury.
     
     
  9. VIII. Of the Declining against God.
     
     
  10. IX. An Exhortation against the Fear of Death.
      
      
  11. X. An Exhortation to Obedience.
      
      
  12. XI. Against Whoredom and Adultery.
      
      
  13. XII. Against Strife and Contention.
  
  
  
• Volume 2 (1563-71)
  
  
  
  1. Preliminaries.
     
     
  2. I. Of the Right Use of the Church.
     
     
  3. II. Against Peril of Idolatry.
     
     
  4. III. For Repairing and Keeping Clean the Church.
     
     
  5. IV. Of Good Works: And First of Fasting.
     
     
  6. V. Against Gluttony and Drunkenness
     
     
  7. VI. Against Excess of Apparel.
     
     
  8. VII. An Homily of Prayer.
     
     
  9. VIII. Of the Place and Time of Prayer.
     
     
  10. IX. Of Common Prayer and Sacraments.
      
      
  11. X. An Information of Them Which Take Offence at Certain Places of Holy Scripture.
      
      
  12. XI. Of Alms Deeds
      
      
  13. XII. Of the Nativity.
      
      
  14. XIII. Of the Passion for Good Friday.
      
      
  15. XIV. Of the Resurrection for Easter Day.
      
      
  16. XV. Of the Worthy Receiving of the Sacrament.
      
      
  17. XVI. An Homily Concerning the Coming Down of the Holy Ghost, for Whitsunday.
      
      
  18. XVII. An Homily for Rogation Week.
      
      
  19. XVIII. Of the State of Matrimony.
      
      
  20. XIX. Against Idleness.
      
      
  21. XX. Of Repentance and True Reconciliation unto God.
      
      
  22. XXI. An Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion.
  
  
  
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