SERMONS Made by the most reue rende Father in God, Edwin, Arch bishop of Yorke, Primate of England and Metropolitane. DAN. 12. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament: and they that turne many to righteousnesse, as the starres for euer and euer. AT LONDON, Printed by Henrie Midleton, for Thomas Charde 1585. TO THE CHRISTIAN READERS, GRACE AND PEACE THROUGH JESU CHRIST OUR LORD. [12, 13.) "Or other things besides these, my son, take thou Eccles. xii. heed for there is none end of making many books, and much reading is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the end of all fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of every man." By which words of weight, proceeding from the oracle, not of Apollo, but of God himself, what effect hath been wrought, both in the hearts and in the hands of many great learned clerks, both here and elsewhere, both heretofore and at this day, to make them withdraw their minds from writing, and to withhold their pens from paper, some witnesses worthy credit could testify, but that daily experience needeth no farther proof. Howbeit, when it is well known, and ought accordingly to be considered, that the place alleged should rather correct the bookish humour of common writers and idle discoursers, than controul the writing of necessary and needful works, which, to the singular advancement of kingdoms and commonweals, to the most excellent service of Almighty God, to the inestimable benefit and blessing of his church, many hundred years sithens that saying of Solomon, have been printed and published notwithstanding; (as by large volumes innumerable, of scriptures and fathers, of histories and arts in all kinds of knowledge, may evidently appear;) every man of ability should rather by those examples encourage himself, than suffer himself by these words to be dissuaded, to employ the talent, as well of his hand as of his tongue, to meet with and overtake all [SANDYS.] 1 |