A07146:769
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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It is reported, sayeth Guilielmus Durandus, that when in old time the ⟨image 159⟩Canon was said openly and with a loud voice, all in a manner by the reason of that use could it by heart, and song it in streets and hie ways, so that it came to pass, that when certain shepherds did sing it in the field, and laid bread upon a stone: at the pronouncing of those words of consecration, the bread was turned into flesh. But the shepherds by Gods judgement were stricken unto death for their presumption through fire that came down from heaven. Therefore the holy fathers have decreed, that those words should be spoken in silence, forbidding all men under pain of excommunication, that no man presume to speak those words, but priests only when they are at the altar, yea and that at Mass: again, when they have on their Massing garments.
It is reported, sayeth Guilielmus Durandus, that when in olde tyme the ⟨image 159⟩Canon was sayde openlye and with a loude voyce, al in a manner by the reason of that vse coulde it by heart, and song it in stretes and hie wayes, so that it came to passe, that whē certain shepheardes did synge it in the fielde, and layed breade vpon a stone: at the pronouncing of those wordes of consecration, the bread was turned into fleshe. But the shepheardes by Gods iudgement were striken vnto death for their presumption thorowe fyre that came downe from heauen. Therfore the holy fathers haue decreed, yt those words should be spoken in silence, forbiddyng all men vnder payne of excommunication, that no man presume to speake those wordes, but priestes onely when they are at the altar, yea and that at Masse: agayn, when they haue on their Massing garmentes.
This tale telleth Guil. Durandus in his book called Rationale divinorum officiorum, & also Joannes Billet in his book de, divinis officiis, & Honorius in his treatise, de gemma animae: 1whereof thou mayest learn two things. First, that in the primitive church and ong after, when