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…

Name: The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…
Author: Thomas Becon

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.

Thomas Becon 1512–1567London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563

[28], 144, 147-266 leaves : port. · 109k words · STC 1755 · ESTC S101368

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The Relics of Rome. › Of Holy Bread.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Holy Bread.

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The use among the Christians was first of all,¹ that so many as came together into the church daily for to pray, and to hear the word of God: the same should also daily receive together the holy communion of the body & blood of Christ. But when the multitude that professed Christ began to increase, and waxed very great, so that that order could not conveniently be observed & kept: the ancient fathers of Christs church made a decree, ye all the Christians should communicate on the Sundays together, and be no more bound unto the daily communion,² as they to fore were. And here of cometh this sentence of S. Austen: Daily to communicate I neither commend, nor discommend: but on the Sundays to receive the communion, I would counsel all men. When this receiving of the communion every Sunday was not done with such devotion, soberness, and gravity, as it ought to have been, but through that often coming unto it much dissolution & lightness ⟨image 191⟩was showed of diverse people: the Elders of Christs Church thought it mete for that present time to take away the custom of receiving the communion every Sunday,³ & to appoint, that the Christians should receive the communion together thrice in the year, that is to say, at Easter, at Whitsuntide, and at the feast of Christs nativity. But when this order also was not duly and reverently observed: it was judged and thought mete, that the people should commonly receive the Lords Supper but once in the year, that is to say, at Easter: and that in the stead thereof, because the remembrance of Christs passion and death should not be forgotten nor his blessed body breaking and precious blood shedding fall from the remembrance of the people,⁴ which is preached, declared, and set forth to the faithful at the Lords supper by breaking and eating the bread, and by pouring out & by drinking the wine: The Fathers of Christs Church instituted the ceremonies of holy bread and holy water, to put the people in remembrance of Christs body breaking,⁵

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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…

Of Procession.

Of Sensing.

Of Candles bearing on Candlemas day.

Of Candles bearing on Candelmassedaye.

Of Ashes sprinkling.

Of Ashes sprincklyng.

Of Palms bearing.

Of Palmes bearyng.

Of hallowing Palms, Ashes, Candles, &c.

Of halowing Palmes, Ashes, Candles, &c.

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