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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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Jacobus de voragine in the life of Pope Gregory the first, telleth a tale concerning this matter. In times past, sayeth he, when the service, which Ambrose made, was more frequented and used in Churches, than was the service, which Gregory had appointed:1 the Bishop of Rome called Adrianus gathered a Council together, in the which it was ordained, that Gregory's service should be observed and kept universally: which determination of the Council, Charles the Emperor did diligently put in execution, while he ran about by diverse provinces, and enforced all the Clergy, partly with threatenings and partly with ⟨image 174⟩punishments, to receive that order. And as touching the books of Ambrose service, he burnt them to ashes in all places, and threw into prison many priests that would not consent and agree to the matter.2 Blessed Eugenius the Bishop coming unto the Council, found that it was dissolved three days before his coming. Notwithstanding through his wisdom, he so persuaded the Lord Pope, that he called again all the Prelates that had been present at the Council, and were now departed by the space of three days. Therefore when the Council was gathered again together, in this all the fathers did consent and agree, that both the ma••ebokes of Ambrose and Gregory should be laid upon the altar of blessed Peter the An••le, and the Church doors diligently shut, and most warily sealed up with the signets of many and diver• Bishops Again, that they should all the whole night give themselves to prayer, that the Lord might reveal, declare, open and show unto them by some evident sign or token, which of these. ii. services he would ⟨p. 143⟩have used in the temples. Thus they doing in all points, as they had determined, in the morning opened the church doors, and found both the Missals or massebookes open upon the altar: or rather, as some say, they found Gregory's massebooke utterly plucked a sunder one piece from an other, and scattered abroad into this and that place. As touching Ambrose book, they only found it open upon the altar in the very same place, where they had tofor laid it. By this sign they thought them selves sufficiently instructed & taught of God, that the service, which Gregory had made, ought to be set abroad and used throughout all the world: