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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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Is not this good stuff? is not this worthy to be called gods service? Ought ⟨p. 159⟩not the people to rise up & make courtesy to the Popish shaveling, when he sprinkleth them with water of so great virtue? Are not the scriptures here well applied? Doth not this ceremony make Christ Jack out of office, with all his works and merits? God have mercy on us, and shortly confound Antichrist.
Is not this good stuffe? is not this worthy to be called gods seruice? Oughte ⟨p. 159⟩not ye people to ryse vp & make curtesy to the Popyshe shauelynge, when he sprinckleth thē with water of so great vertue? Are not the scriptures here wel applied? Doth not this ceremony make Christ Iacke out of office, with all hys workes and merites? God haue mercy on vs, and shortly confoūd Antichrist.
Guilihelmus Durandus saith,1 that the holy water hath deserved to have of God so great virtue, that as outwardly it washeth the body from filthiness: so inwardly cleanseth the souls from sins. O blasphemy intolerable. This is the goodly Godly Catholic doctrine, wherewith the ungoodly ungodly Papists infect the minds of such Christians, as are simple and light of belief, yea, wherewith they caste the souls of all such, as put their confidence and trust in these pilled, beggarly, and lousy ceremonies, into everlasting damnation. And yet must they be called laudable ceremonies, well worthy (and God will.) to be frequented and used in the Church of Christ. And the teachers of this doctrine, & the ministers of these ceremonies must alone be counted worthy ⟨image 189⟩to bear office in the Church, to be reputed and taken for the only pillars of our mother holy Church, to be had in estimation above all men, and to be reverenced as Gods of all men: and so many as be of contrary opinion,