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From A Direction for the English Traviller By which he Shal be inabled to Coast about all England and Wales. London: Mathew Simons, 1635. STC 10420. Amsterdam and New York: Da Capo Press / Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm Ltd., 1969.

GENERAL EDITOR: Ian Lancashire

PUBLISHER: Web Development Group
University of Toronto Library
1997

Editions 1.2

Certaine Sermons Or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches, In the time of the late Queene Elizabeth of famous memory (London, 1623)

EDITED BY

Ian Lancashire

© 1994, 1997 the Editor

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).

Data input: Claire Smith

All rights reserved. This publication, however, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted electronically or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher as long as the text has not been changed in any way.

ISBN 1-896016-00-6
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Table of Contents

• Editor's Introduction

• Volume 1 (1547)
  • Preliminaries.

  • I. A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading of Holy Scripture.

  • II. Of the Misery of all Mankind.

  • III. Of the Salvation of all Mankind.

  • IV. Of the True and Lively Faith.

  • V. Of Good Works.

  • VI. Of Christian Love and Charity.

  • VII. Against Swearing and Perjury.

  • VIII. Of the Declining against God.

  • IX. An Exhortation against the Fear of Death.

  • X. An Exhortation to Obedience.

  • XI. Against Whoredom and Adultery.

  • XII. Against Strife and Contention.

• Volume 2 (1563-71)

  • Preliminaries.

  • I. Of the Right Use of the Church.

  • II. Against Peril of Idolatry.

  • III. For Repairing and Keeping Clean the Church.

  • IV. 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.

  • XIV. 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.