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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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This aforesaid constitution is also ascribed to Pope Anacletus. De consec. dist. 1. cap. Episcopus. Lib. concil.
This aforesaide constitution is also ascribed to Pope Anacletus. De consec. dist. 1. cap. Episcopus. Lib. concil.
In the primitive Church, saith Durande, all that were present at the celebration of masses, that is to say, at the ministration of the Lords supper, were wont every day to communicate, that is, to receive with the minister the Sacrament of the body & blood of Christ, because all the Apostles did drink of the cup according to this saying of the Lord:1 Drink ye all of this. &c. Again he saith: Verily the priest himself now eateth all the parts of the Host. Notwithstanding in certain Churches, he taketh one part, and distributeth the other two parts to the ministers, that is to say, to the Deacon and Subdeacon, according unto that, whereof S. Luke maketh mention,2 that Jesus in Emmaus took the bread and brake it upon the table: and also, as some say, he did eat before the two Disciples, and what remained he gave it unto them▪ He also afterward did eat part of the broiled fish and of the honeycomb, and the residue he gave to his Disciples. ⟨image 167⟩And therefore after that the Deacon and Subdeacon have communicated; the clerks and religious persons come also unto the communion, that they also may be partakers of the holy Communion. Afterward the people also doth communicate, because Christ did not only eat with his Apostles, which were few in number, but also when he should ascend into heaven he did eat with a multitude of his disciples. And a little after he saith. 3The high Bishop (the pope) receiveth one part of the host, and giveth an other part thereof to the Deacon with a kiss, & an other portion to the Subdeacon without a kiss. &c.