"Among the manifold exercises of God's people (dear Christians) there is none more necessary for all estates, and at all times, than is public prayer, and the due use of Sacraments. For in the first, we beg at God's hands all such things, as otherwise we cannot obtain. And in the other, He imbraceth us and offereth himself to be embraced of us."
"Although this justification be free unto us, yet it cometh not so freely unto us, that there is no ransom paid therefore at all."
Man I missed this place. Fantastic quote there lowly. (Edit... meh, removed.) This amazing balance on the part of our Reformers reminds me of our article on Original Sin where were are grievously, but not totally, fallen. Or on Apocrypha, where it's both 'not scripture', and yet 'the Church reads it' in worship. Or on Free Will, where we can't act without God, and yet must act together with (synergy) God. A pretty amazing avoidance of errors on roman and continental-protestant sides.
So true stalwart. the homilies are amazing gifts to the church and a powerful testimony to what reformed catholicism looks like.
"But thus much we must be sure to hold, that in the Supper of the Lord, there is no vain Ceremony, no bare sign, no untrue figure of a thing absent (Matthew 26:26): But (as the Scripture saith) the Table of the Lord, the Bread and Cup of the Lord, the memory of Christ, the Annunciation of his death, yea the Communion of the Body and Blood of the Lord, in a marvelous incorporation, which by the operation of the Holy Ghost (the very bond of our conjunction with Christ) is through faith wrought in the souls of the faithful, whereby not only their souls live to eternal life, but they surely trust to win their bodies a resurrection to immortality (1 Corinthians 10:16-17)."