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What is the subject of the thirty-fifth Article?

"The Homilies."

What do you understand by the Homilies?

Two books of discourses or sermons, published in England, in the reigns of King Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth, by public authority, and appointed to be " read in Churches by the Ministers."

What was the occasion of their publication?

The clergy for the most part were very ignorant, and unfit to teach the people themselves, and therefore books of instruction were provided for them.

What is said respecting these Homilies?

That they " contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these times."

For what times?

For the times in which they were drawn up.

Why were they particularly suited for those times?

Because they opposed the prevalent errors.

Does this declaration pledge the Church to every statement contained in the Homilies?

No: only to the general course of doctrine.

Give the names of the Homilies in the first book.

1. A fruitful exhortation to the reading of Holy Scripture.

2. Of the Misery of all Mankind.

3. Of the Salvation of all Mankind.