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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Relics of Rome. › Of Purgatory.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Purgatorye.
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.
Right as water quencheth fire: so alms deed quencheth the fire that burneth them that been in Purgatory: if they been in good life and in perfect charity that done it, &c.
Right as water quencheth fire: so almesse deede quencheth the fire yt brenneth them that bene in Purgatorye: if they bene in good lyfe and in perfecte charity that done it, &c.
Now to prove, that alms deeds done for souls in Purgatory,1 profit them greatly, he bringeth in this narration or tale. We read, (saith he) that in old time, good people would on all hollowen day, bake bread & deal it for all christen souls. And yet there ben some, but all to few. We read In Legenda aurea of a knight that should go to a battle, and had a cozen that he loved passing well, and said to him thus. If he ⟨p. 203⟩