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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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Twelfthly, The fasting days are not so religiously & with such abstinence observed▪ 1as heretofore they have been. I answer, the people in times past have ben taught of their curates▪ on those days, which the Church, that is to say, the Pope and the Bishops, hath commanded to be fasted, that they should fast under pain of deadly sin, abstain from flesh, and eat but one meal that day.2 To make that sin, which is not contrary to the word of God, is the doctrine of Antichrist.3 To think it more acceptable to God, for to catelfishe, than to eat flesh, is mere madness and plain superstition, seeing that all the creatures of God are good, & nothing is to be cast alway that is received with thanks giving. All things are pure to them that are pure. And those things, which God hath made clean, no man ought to judge unclean.4 Notwithstanding such days of abstinence as are commanded by the Prince, and received by public order, are still with great reverence and high devotion religiously observed and kept: when notwithstanding we right well know,5 that the true and Christen fast is to abstain from sin and to practise virtue:6 to cease to do our own will, and to accomplish the good pleasure of God: and at all times to live temperately and soberly, as our Saviour Christ saith: Take heed to your selves least any time your hearts be overcome with surfeiting ⟨image 22⟩and drunkenness, and cares of this life. Thirteenthly, Justification is taught by faith alone without works. I answer, The Prophet saith: A righteous man shall live by his own faith. And the holy Apostle saith: We plainly affirm, that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law. Again, we have believed on Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the deeds of the law: because by the deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified.