CHURCH OF ENGLAND. [CRANMER, Thomas, JEWEL, John, et al.] - Certaine sermons or homilies, appointed to be read in churches - 1633

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Certaine sermons or homilies, appointed to be read in churches : In the time of the late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory. And now thought fit to be reprinted by authority from the King's most excellent Majesty. [Bound together with] The Second Tome of Homilies, of Such Matters as Were Promised and Entituled in the former part of the Homilies.

London: John Norton for Joyce Norton, 1633. A nice copy of this two volume work, unfortunately lacking the title page to Volume I. The volume starts on gather A.

This is a Caroline reprint "by authority" of Charles I, issued in the year William Laud became Archbishop of Canterbury. An important re-assertion of Anglicanism.

Original full leather boards, with a touch of bumping / edgewear to the boards. Recent spine with titles and date to the spine. There is a little water staining to the work, particularly to the edges, and a slight nicking to the edges of the blank front end paper. Some darkening / foxing, again particularly to the edges. Owner's inscriptions to the inside front board and to the 2nd end paper. (IWe think what is laid in as the first end paper is a later addition, when the spine was replaced - the second end paper appears from condition and inscriptions to be the original one). Also lacking is leaf 3I2 (page 99/100) with the text here also lacking.

Bizarrely, a full page plate, dating from 1814 has been laid in to face page 275. This is an engraving by Wm Craig and L. Brown, showing Britannia crushing the nations of Europe. This is perhaps laid in here as it is opposite the homily against Disobedience and Wilfull rebellion. This long homily, published in various forms, is important, as it was part of the celebrations following the Northern Rising of 1569 and the papal excommunication of Elizabeth in 1570

Book I (1547), compiled under Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Cranmer is generally credited with the doctrinal core: the homilies on Salvation, Faith and Good Works, and probably the opening exhortation to reading Scripture. Other contributors traditionally named include Edmund Bonner (Christian Love and Charity), John Harpsfield (Misery of Mankind) and Thomas Becon (Against Whoredom and Adultery).
Second Tome (1563, enlarged 1571), largely the work of Bishop John Jewel, with Archbishop Matthew Parker overseeing it. The Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion, added after the 1569 rising, is usually associated with this Jewel/Parker circle, though the exact authorship is uncertain.

To the end of the work is "A thankesgiving for the suppression of the last rebellion."

1-98, [vi], 1-98 101-320 [iv].

290 x 210 mm (11½ x 8¼ inches).