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A comfortable epistle, too God's faithful people in EnglandA comfortable epistle, too Goddes faythfull people in Englande
A comfortable epistle, too God's faithful people in England wherein is declared the cause of taking away the true Christen religion from them, & how it may be recovered and obtained again, newly made by Thomas Becon.A comfortable epistle, too Goddes faythfull people in Englande wherein is declared the cause of takynge awaye the true Christen religion from them, & howe it maye be recouered and obtayned agayne, newly made by Thomas Becon.
printed by J. Lambrecht?, 1554
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The. iij. Chapter.
For what other thing do the lying & bloody papists teach at this day / than the very lies / dreams and fantasies of Antichrist the bishop of Rome and his adherents? 1as setting up of altars / tabernacles / Images / and rood lofts / hanging up ⟨image 8⟩of the pyre / setting up of candles before Ido less and mammets / hallowing of bread / salt / water / palms / fire / as•es / oil / cris•e / rings / candles. &c. Ladies psalters / s▪ Katherine's knots / intercessions and merits of saints / Purgatory / praying for the dead / trentals / diriges / commendations / masses of Requiem / masses of Scala celi / masses of Recordare / masses of Si iniquitates / masses for all diseases / masses for all things good or bad / auricular confession / creeping to the cross with candles / eggs / money / &c. Justification of works / free will / popish f•inge / prayers without understanding / faith without knowledge / devotion without the spirit / […] masses / prop•atory sacrifices / done by Sodomitical priests / […] / […] of the Sacramental bread / th• real / corporal / substantial / carnal / natural and sensible presence of Christ in the Sacrament / so that we break him on pieces with our hands / tear him with our teeth / and swallow him into the ma / and so digest him / and send him / I can not tell whither / with an whole sea of like errors and heresy / which the pilled / peuy / […] papists teach without the author of Gods word / even of their own ayne and fantasy / unto the great