It is natural to a man to serve God in certain ceremonies, without the power of godliness: & this service is prescribed by the1 religion of the Church of Rome, which standeth only in outward and corporal ceremonies, as the outward succession of Bishops, garments, vestures, gestures, colours, choice of meat, difference of days, times, and places, hearing, seeing, saying, touching, tasting, numbering of Beads, gilding and worshipping of Images, building Monasteries, rising at midnight, silence in Cloisters, abstaining fr• flesh and whitmeat. Fasting in Lent, keeping Imberdaies, hearing Mass and divine service, seeing and adoring the body in form of bread, receiving holy water, and holy bread, creeping to the Cross, carrying Palms, taking Ashes, bearing Candles, Pilgrimage going, censing, kneeling, knocking, al•ers, superaltars, candlesticks, pardons: In orders Crossing, anointing, shaving, for swearing ma••i•ge; in Baptism, salting, crossing, spatling, ex•••i••ng, washing of hands: at Easter, confession ▪ […] dirge, satisfaction, and in receiving with […] •ew shaven, to imagine a body where they […] •nd though he were there present to be seen […] •he outward seeing and touching of him of […] without faith conduceth no more then it did […] ⟨p. 314⟩Jews. At Rogation days to carry banners, to follow the Cross, to walk about the fields; after Pentecost to go about with Corpus Christi plaie. At Hallowmas to watch in the Church, to say a dirge or commendation, and to ring for all souls, to pa•• tithes truly, to give to the high Altar. And if a man will be a Priest to sa•e Mass and Matins, to serve the Saint of that day, and to lif• well over the head. In sickness to be aneled, to take his Rites, after his death, t• have Funeral, and Obits said for him, an• to be rung for at his Funeral Months mind▪ and Year mind: This is the sum o• the Catholic Religion, standing in bodily Actions, not in any motion or work o• the holy GHOST working in th• heart.
It is naturall to a man to serue God in certaine ceremonies, without the power of godlines: & this seruice is prescribed by the1 religion of the Church of Rome, which standeth onelie in outward and corporall ceremonies, as the outwarde succession of Bishops, garments, vestures, gestures, colours, choise of meate, difference of daies, times, and places, hearing, seeing, saying, touching, tasting, numbring of Beades, gilding and worshipping of Images, building Monasteries, rising at midnight, silence in Cloisters, abstaining fr• flesh and whitmeat. Fasting in Lent, keeping Imberdaies, hearing Masse and diuine seruice, seeing and adoring the bodie in forme of bread, receiuing holie water, and holie breade, creeping to the Crosse, carrying Palmes, taking Ashes, bearing Candles, Pilgrimage going, censing, kneeling, knocking, al•ers, superalters, candlestickes, pardons: In orders Crossing, annointing, shauing, for swearing ma••i•ge; in Baptisme, salting, crossing, spatling, ex•••i••ng, washing of hands: at Easter, confessiō ▪ 〈…〉 •irge, satisfaction, and in receauing with 〈…〉 •ew shauen, to imagine a bodie where they 〈…〉 •nd though he were there present to bee seene 〈…〉 •he outwarde seeing and touching of him of 〈…〉 •ithout faith conduceth no more then it did 〈…〉 ⟨p. 314⟩Iewes. At Rogation daies to carrie banners, to follow the Crosse, to walke about the fields; after Pentecost to goe about with Corpus Christi plaie. At Hallowmas to watch in the Church, to saie a dirge or commendation, and to ring for all soules, to pa•• tithes truelie, to giue to the high Altar. And if a man will bee a Priest to sa•e Masse and Mattens, to serue the Saint of that daie, and to lif well ouer the heade. In sickenesse to bee anneled, to take his Rites, after his death, t haue Funerall, and Obites saide for him, an to bee rong for at his Funerall Moneths minde and Yeare minde: This is the summe o the Catholique Religion, standing in bodilie Actions, not in anie motion or woorke o the holie GHOST woorking in th heart.
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