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Thomas Cranmer

1489–1556 · Anglican (Reformation) · Canterbury, England

Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII and Edward VI and the principal author of the Book of Common Prayer. He compiled and largely wrote the first Book of Homilies (1547), the set of official sermons appointed to be read in every English parish church. He was deprived under Mary and burned at Oxford in March 1556.

12 sermons

  1. A fruitfull exhortation, to the readyng and knowledge of holy scripture
  2. An Homelie of the miserie of al mankynd, and of hys condempnacion to death euerlastyng, by hys awne synne
    Judith 4
  3. An Homelie of the saluacion of mankynd, by onely Christ our sauior, from synne and death euerlastyng
  4. A short declaration of the true liuely, and Christian Faithe
    James 2
  5. An Homelie, or sermon, of good woorkes annexed vnto faithe
    Hebrews 11
  6. An Homelie of Christian Loue and Charitie
  7. Against swearyng and periury
  8. A Sermon, how daungerous a thynge it is, to declyne from God
    Ecclesiastes 10
  9. An exhortation agaynst the feare of Death
    Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 41
  10. An exhortacion, concernyng good ordre and obedience, to rulers and magistrates
    Proverbs 8
  11. An Homelie of whoredome and vnclennesse
  12. An Homelie agaynst contencion and braulynge
    1 Timothy 1:1
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