Veneer on Article XXXV: Of the Homilies
John Veneer, 1734
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Article XXXV. Of the Homilies
The second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers, diligently and distinctly, that they may be understanded of the people.
Of the Names of the Homilies
1.Of the right Use of the Church. 2.Against peril of Idolatry. 3.Of repairing and keeping clean of Churches. 4.Of good Works: first of Fasting. 5.Against Gluttony and Drunkenness. 6.Against Excess of Apparel. 7.Of Prayer. 8.Of the Place and Time of Prayer. 9.That Common Prayers and Sacraments ought to be ministered in a known tongue. 10.Of the reverend estimation of God's Word. 11.Of Alms-doing. 12.Of the Nativity of Christ. 13.Of the Passion of Christ. 14.Of the Resurrection of Christ. 15.Of the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. 16.Of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost. 17.For the Rogation-days. 18.Of the State of Matrimony. 19.Of Repentance. 20.Against Idleness. 21.Against Rebellion.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
Cleaned OCR; [...] marks passages cut for illegibility. See the scan. Text: An Exposition on the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, founded on the Holy Scriptures and the Fathers of the Three First Centuries, by J. Veneer, Rector of St Andrew's, Chichester (first published 1725), 2nd edition with very large additions, 2 vols (London: C. Rivington, 1734). Cleaned OCR from the Internet Archive scans of both volumes; passages too garbled to recover are marked [...]. Public domain.
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