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…

Name: The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…
Author: Thomas Becon

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.

Thomas Becon 1512–1567London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563

[28], 144, 147-266 leaves : port. · 109k words · STC 1755 · ESTC S101368

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The Relics of Rome. › Of Purgatory.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Purgatorye.

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The tenth is, the celebration of masses. ⟨image 234⟩And this is the greatest and most principal remedy and help that can be devised for the deliverance of souls out of Purgatory.¹ For we read,² that a certain soul was appointed of God to lie in Purgatory xv. years: which notwithstanding through one Mass was delivered out of all those pains.³ For this word Missa which we in English call Mass, is derived a Mittendo, that is, of sending. For in the Mass grace is sent to a sinner being in sin, and to the souls a plain deliverance from all pain. Therefore saith Austen,⁴ that there is no mass celebrated, but the two virtuous works do concur and are brought to pass. The one is, a conversion of a sinner from his sin. The other is, a deliverance of a soul out of purgatory, But some man peradventure will here demand,⁵ how it cometh to pass, that the souls which are in purgatory, do know the suffrages, which are here done for the? I answer:⁶ the Angels, which do here abide & tarry with us, do many times visit the souls in purgatory, & declare unto them the suffrages, which we do for them, ⟨p. 206⟩here & so comfort them. O how joyful a thing is this to them? Serm. 41. de anim.

The tenth is, the celebratiō of masses. ⟨image 234⟩And thys is the greatest and most principall remedye and helpe that can bee deuised for the deliueraunce of soules out of Purgatorye.¹

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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…

Of Trentals for souls departed, and how they first began.

Of Trentales for soules departed, and howe they firste began.

Of the virtues of the Mass.

Of the vertues of the Masse.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of Trentals for souls departed, and how they first began.

Of Trentales for soules departed, and howe they firste began.

Of the virtues of the Mass.

Of the vertues of the Masse.

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