The Two Books of Homilies

Compiled with the intent to improve the preaching standards in churches at the time and to increase pastoral understanding of Christianity, Homilies is a comprehensive overview of Christian theology, the history and impact of the Reformation, and daily applications of faith and doctrine. The sermons included here dive into the issues and questions of salvation, Christian living, justification by faith, the weight of sin, and many more impactful themes and ideals. The homilies provide excellent examples of effective and topical sermons while also delivering important theological information and an applicable understanding of the Christian faith.

1. Opening Credits
2. An Admonition to All Ministers Ecclesiastical
3. An Homily of the Right Use of the Church or Temple of God, and of the Reverence Due unto the Same | Part 1
4. An Homily Against the Peril of Idolatry and Superfluous Decking of Churches | Part 1
5. The Second Part of the Homily Against Peril of Idolatry
6. The Third Part of the Homily Against Images and the Worshipping of Them
7. An Homily Against the Peril Part 3 Continued
8. An Homily Against the Peril Part 3 Continued
9. An Homily for Repairing and Keeping Clean and Comely Adorning of Churches
10. An Homily of Good Works, and First of Fasting
11. An Homily Against Gluttony and Drunkenness
12. An Homily Against Excess of Apparel
13. An Homily or Sermon Concerning Prayer
14. An Homily of the Place and Time of Prayer
15. An Homily Wherein Is Declared that Common Prayer and Sacraments Ought to Be Ministered in a Tongue that Is Understanded of the Hearers
16. An Information for Them Which Take Offense at Certain Places of the Holy Scripture | Part 1
17. An Homily of Almsdeeds and Mercifulness Toward the Poor and Needy
18. An Homily or Sermon Concerning the Nativity and Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ
19. An Homily for Good Friday, Concerning the Death and Passion of our Savior Jesus Christ
20. The Second Homily Concerning the Death and Passion of Our Savior Christ
21. An Homily of the Resurrection of Our Savior Jesus Christ. For Easter Day
22. An Homily of the Worthy Receiving and Reverent Esteeming of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
23. An Homily Concerning the Coming Down of the Holy Ghost and the Manifold Gifts of the Same. For Whitsunday
24. The Second Part of the Homily Concerning the Holy Ghost, Dissolving this Doubt, Whether All Men Do Rightly Challenge to Themselves the Holy Ghost, or No
25. An Homily for the Days of Rogation Week. That All Good Things Come from God
26. An Exhortation to Be Spoken to Such Parishes Where They Use Their Perambulations in Rogation Week for the Oversight of the Bounds and Limits of Their Towns
27. An Homiliy for the State of Matrimony
28. An Homiliy Against Idleness
29. An Homily of Repentance and of True Reconciliation unto God, in Three Parts
30. An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion | Part 1
31. The Second Part of the Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
32. The Fifth Part of the Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
33. A Thanksgiving for the Suppression of the Last Rebellion
34. Closing Credits