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…

Name: The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…
Author: Thomas Becon

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.

Thomas Becon 1512–1567London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563

[28], 144, 147-266 leaves : port. · 109k words · STC 1755 · ESTC S101368

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The Relics of Rome. › Of singing in the Church the judgement of diverse learned men.The Reliques of Rome. › Of singing in the Churche the iudgement of diuerse learned men.

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Undoubtedly, saith S. Gregory, true prayer c• ̄sisteth not in the voice of the mouth, but in the thoughts of the heart. For our words do not make the voices ⟨p. 119⟩the pithier & of the greater force to come unto the most secret ears of God, but our desire and affections.¹ Therefore saith the Lord in the gospel. Enter into thy closet & spar the door. He sparreth the door and prayeth in his closet, which holdeth his peace with his mouth, & poureth out the affection of his mind in the sight of god above. Moral. Lib. 22. cap. 18.

Undoubtedly, sayth S. Gregory, true prayer c• ̄sisteth not in the voyce of the mouth, but in the thoughts of ye heart. For our words do not make the voices ⟨p. 119⟩the pithier & of ye greater force to come vnto the most secret eares of God, but our desire and affections.¹ Therefore sayth the Lord in the gospel. Enter into thy closette & sparre the doore. He sparreth the doore and prayeth in hys closet, whiche holdeth his peace with his mouth, & poureth out the affection of his minde in the sight of god aboue. Moral. Lib. 22. cap. 18.

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S. John Chrysostom also writeth on this manner:¹ It is the duty of a devout mind to pray to God, not with the voice, or with the sound of the voice, but with the devotion of the mind, and with the faith of the heart. Again he saith, the crying of the voice is not the work in prayer unto god, whom we know that he beholdeth the secretes of the heart, but the crying of faith, and the devotion of a godly and pure mind Therefore the best way to pray,

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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…

Of the Mass, and of all the parts thereof.

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Of the Mass, and of all the parts thereof.

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