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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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1Eighteenthly, The holy days and solemn feasts, which of our Elders were observed and kept with high devotion and great reverence, are now a days neglected and set nought by.2 I answer: We are free from the observation of days.3 The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore is the Son of man Lord also of the Sabbath: ⟨image 25⟩A Christen mans Sabbath is every day, and endureth the whole time of his life: which is to rest from evil, to cease to do his own will, and to obey the holy law and commandment of GOD. We are no more tied and bound to the observation and keeping of the Jewish Sabbaths, from the which we are made free by Christ the true light, whose coming in the flesh expelled all the dark shadows of Moses law, as the Apostle saith: Let no man trouble your conscience about meat and drink,4 or for a piece of an holy day, or of the new Moon, or of the Sabbath days, which are shadows of things to come: but the body is in Christ. Let no man make you shoot at a wrong mark, &c. Such as yet stick and abide in the outward observation of days,5 times and meats, the Apostle reproveth on this manner and saith: Now after that ye have known GOD (yea rather are known of God) how is it that ye turn again unto the weak and beggarly ordinances, whereunto again ye desire a fresh to be in bondage. Ye observe months and days, and times, and years. I am in fear of you, least I have bestowed on you labour in vain.6 Again, If ye be dead with Christ from the ordinances of the world, why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions? Touch not, taste not, handle not▪ which all perish through the very abuse, after the commandments and doctrines of men. We grant and confess, that we have put down, yea and that worthily, certain superstitious & Idolatrous holy days, as the feasts of Thomas Becket that traitorous Rebel,