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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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Of receiving the Sacrament under one kind after the popes invention.
Of receiuing the Sacrament vnder one kinde after the popes inuention.
1Pope Innocent the third (as some write) did first of all forbid in the council Lateran, that the lay people should receive the holy communion of the body and blood of Christ under both kinds: about the year. &c 1215. Other affirm (which I judge to be more true) that that wicked decree ⟨p. 104⟩of taking away the cup of the mystery of Christs blood from the lay people contrary to christs institution and commandment, was first of all gram ted confirmed and established in a coū cel holden at Constance, 2the xiii, session, where the most famous clerk John Wycliffe our country man was condemned for an heretic, & the two learned men John Hus & Hieronymus de Praga were most cruelly and most unjustly murdered and burnt also for heretics of the bloody Papists, notwithstanding the Emperors safe conduct, for denying the Popish article of Transubstantiation and maintaining the receiving of the Sacrament under both kinds.3 In the year. &c. 1415. This is worthy to be noted, that the Papists them selves in that their devilish decree confess and grant, that Christs institution is, that the lay people should receive the Sacrament under both kinds, and that in the primitive Church all the communicants did not only receive the mystery of christs body, but also the mystery of Christs blood, one several from the other, according to the institution of christ ⟨image 134⟩And notwithstanding the premisses, they straightly charge and command, that from that time forward, none of the Laity shall receive the Sacrament, but only under the kind of bread, and that they must believe certainly and by no means doubt, that the whole body and blood of Christ is truly contained as well under the kind of bread alone as under the kind of wine also: & that therefore it is sufficient for the laity to receive the Sacrament under one kind, and that whosoever from that time fourth shall presume to receive the Sacrament under both kinds (except he be an holy anointed) or think of this decree otherwise than well: he shall be taken, judged, condemned and punished like an heretic according to the appointment of the ecclesiastical laws, that is to say, burnt to ashes, as the good monk of Eye in Suffolk was in the days of king Henry the eight,