Being bound by my function to lay these things before your royal highness, the one as a reward, if you fulfil; the other as a judgment from God, if you neglect them; yet I openly declare before the living God, and before these nobles of the land, that I have no commission to denounce your majesty deprived, if your highness miss in part, or in whole, of these performances, much less to draw up indentures between God and your majesty, or to say you forfeit your crown with a
clause, for the bishop of Rome, as have been done by your majesty’s pre-
decessors, king John, and his son Henry of this land. The Almighty God of his mercy let the light of his countenance shine upon your majesty, grant you a prosperous and happy reign, defend you and save you; and let your subjects say, Amen! God save the king
[[^ Josias, Ibid.] [? Presidents, F. and F] [? There was no king, that turned, Ibid. ]]
Because all men be sinners and offenders against God, and breakers of his law and commandments, therefore can no man by his own acts, works, and deeds (seem they never so good) be justified and made righteous before God; but every man of necessity is constrained to seek for another righteousness, or justification, to be received at God’s own hands, that is to say, the remission, pardon?, and forgiveness of his sins and trespasses in such things as he hath offended. And this justification or righteousness, which we so receive by God’s mercy and Christ’s merits, embraced by faith, is taken, accepted, and allowed of God for our perfect and full justification.
For the more full understanding hereof, it is our parts and duty ever to remember the great mercy of God, how that (all the world being wrapped in sin by breaking of the law) God sent his only Son our Saviour Christ into this world, to fulfil the law for us; and by shedding of his most precious blood, to make a sacrifice and satisfaction, or (as it may be called) amends, to his Father for our sins, to assuage his wrath and indignation conceived against us for the same. Insomuch that infants, being baptized, and dying in their infancy, are by this
5..,. and sacrifice washed from their sins, brought to God’s favour, and made his children, and.: M.. δ”: inheritors of his kingdom of heaven. And they which actually do^ sin after their baptism, when they convert and turn again? to God unfeignedly, they are likewise washed by this sacrifice from their sins, in such sort, that there remaineth not any spot of sin that shall be imputed to their damnation. This is that justification, or righteousness, which St Paul speaketh of, when he saith: “No man is justified by the works of the law, but freely by faith in Jesus Christ.” And again he saith: We believe in Christ Jesu, that we be justifed freely by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, because that no man shall be justified by the works of the law.”
[[! The three homilies, Of Salvation,” Of the attribute to his pen that against the Fear of Death,]
[true, lively, and christian Faith,” and Of Good there being among the fragments of his compo-]
[Works,” have generally been attributed to Cran- sition, given by Strype, part of a discourse on]
[mer. Gardener, in his letter to protector Somer- this subject.” “Todd’s Life of Cranmer, Vol, Il.]
[set, several times ascribes that of Salvation” pp. 10, 11. Ed. Lond. 1831.—But the homily of the]
[to him. Vid. Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, Misery of Mankind, ascribed by Dr Wordsworth]
[Ist Ed. Lond. 1563, pp. 742, 5,803. Of this to Cranmer, appears in Homilies set forth by the]
[homily, and the other two, Todd says: “But right reverend father in God, Edmunde (Bonner),]
[more extensive declarations of doctrine had now bishop of London,” Ed. Lond. (Cawode) 1555.]
[been formed, entitled Homilies, They are in with the name of Harpesfield at the end, thus:]
[number twelve. Of these at least three, if Jo. Harpesfield sacre theologie professor. Arch.]
[not a fourth, appear to have been written by London.—Vid. also, Strype’s Memorials of Abp.]
[Cranmer himself. If internal evidence had been Cranmer, Vol. I. pp. 213, 14. 249. Ed. Oxon. 1810.]
[wanting in support of this belief, the authority of Eccl. Memorials, Vol. I. pp. 533-5. Ed. Oxon.]