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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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With one only oblation, saith the Apostle, hath Christ that everlasting Bishop made perfect for ever them that are sanctified. Again, we are sanctified & made holy by the offering up of the body of Jesus ⟨image 20⟩Christ done once for all.1 Seventhly, The invocation and intercession of Saints is clean omitted and left. I answer: God alone is to be called upon, as he himself▪ commandeth, saying: Call on me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee. We know by the word of God no Mediator, no Intercessor, but Christ alone, as it is written: There is one God, & one Mediator, (he saith not, many Mediators) between God and man, even the man Jesus Christ, which gave himself a ransom for all men. Again, if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the father (he saith not, Advocates) Jesus Christ the righteous one. And he it is that obtaineth mercy for our sins: not for our sins only, but also for all the world. Item, Christ is on the right hand of God, and maketh intercession for us. He saith not, Saints make intercession for us. And our saviour Christ him self saith: Whatsoever ye ask the father in my name, (he saith not, in the names of the saints) he will give it you.2 Eighthly, The article of transubstantiation is rejected and cast away as an error or heresy. I answer. The holy Scripture knoweth no such article: neither have the holy old fathers ever taught or left written such doctrine behind them. It is a new and late invention, brought in by the Pope and his adherents. Saint Paul calleth the Sacramental bread▪ 3not only bread before the consecration, but also after the consecration. And our Saviour Christ calleth the Sacramental wine after consecration, the fruit of the vine: & what other thing is that to say,4 than to call it wine. Ninthly, The natural, corporal, substantial, and real body of Christ, which he received of ⟨image 21⟩