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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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Of these things aforesaid may we evidently perceive, that in times paste before papacy bare rule in the church of Christ, the celebration of the Lords Supper was not a private repast of one alone, but a banquet of many, according to this saying of the Apostle: my brethren when ye come together to eat (the Lords Supper) tarry one for an other.1 Again. All we are partakers of one bread.
Of these thinges aforesayd may we euidently perceaue, that in times paste before papacye bare rule in the church of Christ, the celebration of the Lordes Supper was not a priuate repaste of one alone, but a banket of many, accordynge to thys sayinge of the Apostle: my brethren when ye come together to eate (the Lordes Supper) tary one for an other.1 Agayne. All we are partakers of one breade.
Pope Gelasius the first commanded,1 that the communion should be ministered in both kinds to them that come unto the Lords table, and that if any were otherwise affected, they should be put away from the Lords table. For (saith he) the division of one and the same mystery can not be done with out great sacrilege.2 In the yere. &c. 494 De cons. dist. 1. cap. comperimus.
Pope Gelasius the first commaūded,1