The convocation book of 1606, commonly called Bishop Overall's convocation book, concerning the government of God's Catholic church and the kingdoms of the whole world

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...death, and hell; to the end, that 'as many as believed in Him, might not perish, but have joh. 3. life everlasting.' And therefore knowing faith to be the J means of so unspeakable a benefit, He vouchsafed to be not 203only our Priest, but our heavenly Prophet; labouring, by preaching and miracles, to beget faith in the hearts of His hearers, that, Satan being expelled thence, He Himself with His Father might abide and make Their mansion in them. To the performance of which most admirable work, how our Saviour Christ, being equal with His Father, became a ser-phii.2.7. vant for our sakes, as it was the will of God, whereunto, of His own accord, He conformed Himself, and what a poor estate He held whilst He was upon the earth; how He was born in poverty, lived in poverty, and died in poverty; how maliciously and scornfully He was oftentimes entreated; how as, when He spake the truth, His enemies said he 'bias-Mat. 9. phemed;' so, when He cast out devils, they told Him that3, ' '-1 'He cast them out by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils;'Mat. 12. how in the whole course of His life He was so far from being a temporal king, or having possession of any regal state, as He had not so much as an house of His own to rest His head in, but was glad to lodge now with one man and then rMat. t». with another, as the occasions and times served; and how in the end, He was content to satisfy the malice of His enemies, by submitting Himself for our sakes, unto the death of the cross, it were a needless labour for us to pursue; the Evangelists have so plainly set down all these particulars, and many more besides to that purpose. Likewise it shall be sufficient for us sparingly to recount how our Saviour Christ was not only content to preach and work miracles Himself, f...