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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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Pope Sixtus the second ordained first of all,1 that the Supper of the Lord should be celebrated at an altar: which before was not the use. For the holy mysteries of the Lords body and blood until that time was ministered upon a table according to the practise of Christ,2 of his Apostles, and of the primitive Church. And here may all men see, from whence the popish altars come, for the which the stubborn, sturdy stout papists do so stoutly strive About the year of our Lord, (if stories be true) two hundred three score and five, came in the altars first into the Church. Other affirm, that they came in about the year of our lord, 294• But I believe that altars came not in the Church before the year of our Lord. 590. When the popish, peevish, private Masses began first to creep in▪ Volat. Durandus. Fasci•. Temp. ⟨image 112⟩Mas. Pet. Aequillinus. Joannes. Stella.
Pope Sixtus the seconde ordayned fyrst of al,