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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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We may not follow the custom of man, but the truth of God, seeing that God speaketh by the Prophet Isaiah,1 & saith: They worship me in vain, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men. Doth not God in his holy word command his people the Israelites, that they should not follow the customs neither of the Egyptians, ⟨image 13⟩nor of the Canaanites, but rather walk in his ordinances, & fulfil his laws and statutes?2 Is not this Gods precept? Follow not the multitude to do evil. Again do not ye those things, which they have done that were before you,3 neither be ye defiled in them. As the custom is not to be rejected but received that is agreeable to the truth of Gods word: so likewise is that custom not to be received, but rejected that dissenteth from the verity of Gods pure religion. Forasmuch therefore as the greatest part of the old customs, that be frequented & used in the popes Church, are wicked & ungodly, & manifestly & directly contrary to the word of God: the objection that our Papists make in this behalf, is nothing worth: neither ought it to be unto them any let, to hinder them from coming unto the undeceivable truth of Gods word.
We may not follow the custome of man, but the truth of God, seyng that God speaketh by the Prophet Esay,1 & sayth: They worship me in vaine, teaching the commaundementes and doctrines of men. Doth not God in his holy worde cōmaūd his people the Israelites, that they should not follow the customes neither of the Egyptians, ⟨image 13⟩nor of the Cananites, but rather walke in his ordinaunces, & fulfill his lawes and statutes?2 Is not this Gods precept? Followe not the multitude to do euill. Again do not ye those thynges, whiche they haue done that were before you,3