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A14341	An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley; De rerum inventoribus. English. Abridgments	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581. aut	1546 (1546)	STC 24656; ESTC S107600	129,908	356

one day thre M. men and women And by the myracle of healyng the lame mā at the beautyful gate of the temple he stayed and confirmed them strongly in the fayth albeit he suffered persecucion greatly for the same And Stephyn for his faythful testimony was stoned to death Philip conuerted and baptised the Samaritanes and a certaine eunuche of Candaces quene of Ethiopia the eunuch turned the quene with her famylye and a great parte of that countree to the fayth of Christ After in Antioche the faythfull named them selues Christians Thomas preached to the Parthians Mathew in Ethiopia Bartholomew in Ynde Andrew in Scytia Iohn in Asia Peter in Galatia Pontus Capadocia Peter was borne in Bethsaida a cytie of Galile brother to Andrew He was by shyppe of Anthioche .vii. yeares and conuerted many people of Asia and after went to Rome in the tyme of Claudius there shewed the Gospel with great encrease at the same tyme Mari the virgine and mother of oure sauioure Iesus Christ dyd chaunge her lyfe and was Assumpted into the nombre of blessed spirites whiche was the yere of our saluacion .xlvii. Not long after Paule beyng conuerted from his phantasticall tradicions to a preacher of Christes Gospel was brought to Rome where he preached boldly the Gospel notwithstandyng the great persecutions that he suffered for it and afterwarde suffered death by the way of headyng at the cōmaūdement of Nero the same day that Peter was crucified on a crosse Thus dayly the cōgregacion of christians encreased more and more as the Actes of the Apostles and other histories doth declare at ful Albeit there was great trouble and persecucion in euerye place yet God by his power contrary to theyr expectacion turned theyr cruelnes to the furtheraunce of his worde confirmacion of the faythfull and confusion of them that vsed tyranny The .ii. Chapiter ¶ The institucion of circumcision and baptisme GOD whiche hadde made promyse to Abraham y t he should be father of many nations and that al the world should be blessed in his seede that Christ willyng to stay his farth in y e same promise appointed the couenāt of circumcision betwene him Abraham saiyng euery male shalbe circūcised and the fleshe of his fore skinne shalbe cut round about for a signe of the leage confederacy that I make with the. Vpon this cōmaundement Abraham then beyng .xcix. yeares of age dyd cut his fore skyn his sōne Ismales beyng then .xii. yeares olde whom he begatte by Agar his bondmayde and al his men seruauntes For this cause as s Cyprian saieth that he might haue the fyrste fruites of the blod whiche should afterward shede his holy blod for the redemption of manye yea of all that beleue in him The fashion of it was to cut the fore skynne of a mānes yarde with a knyfe of stone as God commaunded Iosue that he should make knyues of stone to circumcise all the Israelites the second tyme and Moses dyd circumcise his children with a sharpe stone Chrisostome calleth circumcision the fyrst and most auncient commaundement for there is no nacion that gaue any preceptes or rules to lyue by afore Abraham or Moses therfore it is to be supposed that other countries toke example at the Hebrues to circumcise their chyldrē as the Pheniciens and Arabiens the Sarrocenes the Ethiopians the Egyptiens and the Colchians This circumcision of y e fleshe was a fygure to vs of the circumcision of the heart and cuttyng away of al superfluouse luste carnal desyres and importeth a moderacion and mortifiyng of the affectes concupicences of the olde Adam I meane the sinnefull body he that had not this signe was banished out of the nōber of the people of God had no par● in the promyses made to Abraham Baptisme wherein is lefte to vs a significacion bothe of the mortificacion of y e fleshe and diyng to the world that we may walke in a newe lyfe and also of the washyng away of our sinnes by Christes blod and is the token that we be of the body of the cōgregacion of the faythful was instituted by s Iohn sonne of zacharye the .xv. yere of the Emperoure Tyberius reigne in the wyldernes besyde the famoose riuer of Iordane wher he baptised muche people This baptisme and washyng was in the water to signifye the washyng away of our sinnes that shuld be by Christ whiche baptised in the holy ghost fyre There was signes of baptisme in the olde lawe as the cloud the red sea y e riuer of Iordain The fyrste that was christened of the heathen was Cornelius of Cesaria and the eunuchus of quene Cādaces Christenyng of enfantes was institute among vs as cyrcumcision of chyldren was of the Iewes celebrated the eight day Iginius bishop of Rome ordeyned fyrste that chyldren whiche should be Christened should haue a godfather and a godmother for to be wytnesse of the sacrament y t it was receiued And Victor bishop there dyd institute that one might be christened either by a lay man or woman in tyme of necessitie bycause enfantes were often in daunger There be thre maner of baptismes as Cyprian diuideth it One in water wherof Iohn was auctour another in the holy gost fyre wherof Christ was institutour the third is in blod wherein the children y t Herod slewe were Christened It was also the maner in old tyme that they whiche were growen in age should be baptised in white apparel and that was wont to be at Easter or Whitsonday only necessitie cōstrayned otherwise In the meane tyme tyll those daies came they were taught the misteries of the religion of Christ whiche they should professe Of that custome I suppose the sondaye after Easter is called the white sonday The .iii. Chapiter ¶ Of the priesthod of the Hebrues and degrees of the same LYKE as in y e christen cōmon welth there be two sortes of men one called the laytie to whō apperteyneth the ministracion of the publike wele and all temporl affayres the other is the Clergie to whō belongeth the cure charge of ministryng y e word of God sacramentes other decent ceremonies so in the olde lawe of y e Hebrues there were two iurisdictions one of thē was capitaynes gouernours of the cōmons the other was the priesthod that did offre vp the sacrifices other oblacions Of this degree of priestes Aaron and his sonnes were the fyrst ordeyned and cōsecrated by Moses at the cōmaūdement of God The maner and fashion of halowing of thē and their vestures is declared at large in the booke of Exodus As for Noe whiche made the fyrst alter Melchisedech Abraham Isaac and Iacob dyd make their offeryng rather of a naturall deuocion then any priestly auctorytee After that the Leuites whom we vse to cal deacons were

effect emōg y e priestes of the Weste parties vntill the tyme of Gregory the seueth whiche was the yere of our lorde M.lxxiiii AND here Polydore protesteth that the syngle life of priestes dooeth more harme to the religion shame to the ordre and griefe to honest menne then their constrained chastite profiteth if thei wer restored to the libertie and chose it were no preiudice to the christen common wealth and honesty for the ordre In the beginnyng menne maried their sisters and kinswomen but Moses restrained theim of the Hebrues from the first and seconde degrees and Fabianus forbad the third and fourth whiche custome stādeth now in effect Theodorus did inhibite first that a manne might not mary that mayde to whō his father was a godfather It was confirmed firste by Gregory and after by Alexander the third that no man should mary his brothers wife lest it should bee thought to be a counterfet of the Hebrues Lamech was the first that euer had two wiues whose example many other ensued afterwarde The custome of purifiyng was taken of y e Hebrues but there is no daie or time appoincted for it Neuerthelesse for an honest order thei vse cōmonly not to be purified afore the moneth daie then with a few honest matrōs she cōmeth accompained to the church offereth a waxe taper the chrisome ❧ The .v. Chapiter ¶ Of the temples churcheyardes when the crosse was firste had in reuerence IN the old testement Moses sette vp a tabernacle curiously edified to God wherin supplicacion and intercessiō was made to hym for the sinnes of the people And in that he made the Arke of couenaūt in the whiche he put the twoo tables of stone conteignyng the lawe of the ten commaundementes Aarons rod and the potte of Manna After hym Salomō kyng of the Hebrues made at Hierusalē a temple of costly araie and sumptuously wrought I cannot to saie trueth perfectely tell where the firste churche of christen menne was buylded but by all coniecture it semeth that it was made of the Apostles either in Ethiopia where Matthewe preached or in lower Inde where Bartholomewe taughte or in Scythia where Andrewe shewed the worde of God Where thei doubtles either caused newe churches too bee edified or els transposed the idolles temples to serue the christen mennes vse abolishyng supersticion plantyng the true religiō of Christ Albeit it were not against reason to suppose there was a temple or hous of praier appoyncted by Iames at Hierusalē IN Rome the first that I reade of was cōsecrated by Pius bishoppe of Rome in the strete called Patricius at Nouatus bathes in honour of the virgin Prudentia at the requeste and suite of Praxedis her sister And after Calistus made a temple to the virgin Mari in a place beyōde Tyberis and instituted a churcheyarde in Appius strete and called it after his owne name notwithstandyng Abraham was the first that made any place of buriall in Hebron where he bought of Ephron an Hethite y e double caue for thre hundred sicles of siluer with the grounde aboute it and ther was Sara his wife and he himself buried NOHA buylded the firste alter and offered vpō it a burned sacrifice to the lord And Bonifacius the third caused that thei wer couered with linen clothes Constantinus when he had wonne the battaill against Maxentius by reason of a vision that he sawe of the crosse the daie of the battaill ordained that from thēce furth no manne should suffre death on the crosse And so in processe of tyme it was had in muche reuerēce and worship And Theodosius made a lawe that there should no Image of the crosse bee grauen in stone marble or in yearth lest men should tread on it Helene Constantines mother a verie vertuouse woman repaired too Hierusalem to seke the crosse of our lord where with greate laboure and diligence she found it and with it the other twoo whereon the theues were hanged but it was easy to perceiue Christe his crosse by the title whiche then did remain albeeit sore wasted and corrupted with antiquitee ¶ The .vi. Chapiter ¶ Of the auncient rite of sacrificyng feastfull daies dedicatyng temples the mistery of Fire holy Water CAIN and Abell the two sonnes of our first father Adam offered in sacrifice to GOD the firste fruites of their goodes Abell his oblacion was milke Cain his gyfte was corne Afterward whē the priesthode was ordained Aaron and his sonnes offered diuerse thynges with sundry ceremonies whiche be shewed at large in the boke of Leuiticus The Gētiles almoste all sacrificed to y e idols men or women after sundry rites as appeareth in the histories Gentile auctours And if it fortune that thei omitted any suche abhominable idolatry thei had greate punishment destrucciō of their fruite corrupcion of their waters infeccion of y e aire deth of catel greate droughtes womē had eiuill deliueraunce with many suche plages as Dionisius Hilicarnasseus witnesseth which the spirites of the aire procured to delude seduce men and confirme theim in their errour THE holy daies emong the Iewes were diuerse as the Sabboth daie the feaste of y e newe Moone the passeouer the feaste of swete breade Pentecost the feast of Tabernacles the dedicaciō daie whiche bee al shewed largely in the olde Testament The vsage of dedicating churches is of great antiquitie for Moses did sacrifice the tabernacle Salomon consecrated the temple that he buylded at Hierusalem And Esdras after when thei returned from the captiue of Babilō hallowed the temple newe again Of them we receiue our rite of hallowyng of churches albeit we haue mo ceremonies thē thei had FIRE was kepte continually on the alter by the priestes for without it and salte could no sacrifice bee duly made or ordinarely offred and we in oure Masses haue euer a taper of waxe burnyng And the emperoures of Rome had Fire bourne afore thē the Vestales had euer perpetual Fire in the tēple where thei serued Vesta THE spirites of y e aire that gaue doubtfull answeres to them that required any question of theim wer at the commyng of Christe all destroyed For what tyme he was caried into Egipte whiche is a countree full of supersticion and Idolatry all the Idoles of that region wer ouerthrowē fell to the ground at his commyng thither And in the tyme of Adriane the Emperoure bothe the wicked sacrifices wer abholished and also the oracles of Apollo at Delphos Iupiter Hammon in Egipte with like vanities wer subuerted bi the power of God through his sōne Iesus Christ HOLY water was ordaigned by Alexander the first to be consecrated to driue away spitites and was commaunded that it should bee kepte as well in churches as in priuate houses for thesame vse whereof are growen emong the commō people many supersticiouse erroures contrary to the woorde of