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A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the…A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the…
A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Church. Perused and allowed according to the Queens Majesties injunctions.A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Churche. Perused and allowed accordinge to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by Henry Wykes for Lucas Harrison, 1568
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ Of burying the faithful, and care which men ought to take for the dead, of Purgatory, and the appearing of spirits. Cha. 26.
¶ Of buriyng the faithfull, and care whiche men ought to take for the dedde, of Purgatorie, and thapperyng of spirites. Cha. 26.
The scripture commandeth to bury honestly, and without 1superstition, the bodies of the faithful, as the temples of the holy ghost, which we believe shall rise again, in the latter day: Also to make mention after a comely forte, of them who died Godly in the 2Lord, and to be ready to help and relieve those, whom they have left behind them, as widows, and fatherless children. We teach men to take none other care then this, for them that be dead: We therefore much disallow the heretics, called Cynici, who despised dead bodies, or very negligently 3and contemptuously hurl them into the earth, never speaking so much as a good word of them, nor caring any thing at all for those, whom they left behind them. Now on the other side, we like not those, that are to much, and to overthwertly serviceable to the dead, howling like Ethnics, for their ⟨p. 88⟩friends departed, saying, or hearing Mass for their souls, and mumbling for pence certain prayers, to deliver them by this their devotion, from torments, wherewith they suppose, that they are after their death tormented: yet so, that by their lamentable songs and Diriges, they are released of their pains. Howbeit moderate mourning, which the Apostle. j. Thes. iiij.