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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
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Here follow certain Fragments of papistry.
Here folowe certayne Fragmentes of papistrye.
WE have tofore heard, where we entreated of the Lords supper, how the Pope Innocent the third ordained, that the mystery of Christs body, otherwise called the sacramental bread, should be kept in churches continually under lock and key, to the intent to be in a readiness at all times: lest, sayeth he, they that are sick, should want the spiritual comfort in the troublesome time of death.1 Some curious fellow peradventure will here demand why the sacramental wine is not also reserved, and hanged up as well as y• bread, seeing Christ gave this general commandment, and said: Drink ye all of this. To this question answereth Guilielmus Durandus, saying: The blood of Christ is not reserved and kept for diverse causes. The first is, because wine, which is liquid, may easily through negligence be spilt. The second is, because that by the chalice, which is on Maundy thursday received, the end of the old law is understanded. The third is, because the body that is reserved is not without blood. The fourth ⟨image 284⟩is, that in the the blood is not reserved: it is declared, ye the old sacrifice ought to cease. For the bread signifieth the new testament: but the wine signifieth the old testament. To make evident pr•se of this matter, the Lord, when he ha• drunk sayde: Consumatum est. It is finished. Therefore the chalice is received, and the bread is reserved: because the law hath now his end, & the Gospel hath his beginning. The fifth cause is, because Christ at the Lords supper said: Verily I say unto you, I will not from henceforth drink any more of this fruit of the Vine, till I drink that new in the kingdom of my father. He spake not of the body, or of eating. Yea we find, that afterward he did eat part of the broiled fish, and also of the honey comb: but we do not find that he ever drunk after, Durandus, in Rat. di. off. Lib. 6. Cap. 79.