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A69547	Englands old religion faithfully gathered out of the history of the Church of England, as it was written by Venerable Bede, almost a thousand years agoe (that is) in the year 698 after the passion of our Saviour : Bede saith he ended this history in the year 731 after the incarnation : we have not altered any part of this Fathers own words in any point concerning faith : only here and there is omitted what belongeth not to that purpose / by H.B.; Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English. Selections	Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Beaumont, Henry, 1611 or 12-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1659; ESTC R8695	74,168	275

tending to a crown of glory 29. These Priests hear Confessions and either presently give absolution or defer it for a time as they see cause 30. They reserve the Sacrament which consequently they often administer in that one kind in which it is reserved 31. They use Exorcisms against the Devils who are cast out at their command many times 32. The people flock to them to crave their blessing 33. They give this Blessing with their hand making the sign of the Cross God sometimes miraculously curing the sick by the blessing of holy Priests and Bishops 34. The Bishops who ordain and govern these Priests are themselves governd by their Metropolitans and Primats These Primats are placed in this Authority by the Pope and alwaies invested by him giving them their Pall to use only at solemn Mass 35. The Primacie of the Bishop of Canterbury is not instituted by any King but by the Pope giving that Bishop full power over all English Bishops though living then under several Kings 36. These Bishops when they suffer any grievances from their Metropolitans or Primats in England do make their Appeal immediately unto the Pope as to their highest Superior on Earth their Accusers prosecute their Accusation not in England but in the Popes Court at Rome they being there cast obey humbly in their own Kingdom and by the sentence of the Pope English Bishops depos'd are acknowledg'd to be legally restor'd and this even in a publick Synod of the English Church And this Appeal used by their most holy Bishops 37. The most holy also and most Apostolick Bishops ask the Popes license and blessing to preach to Heathens 38. They have evermore recourse to the Pope in the most important Ecclesiastical causes 39. They admit the use of such priviledges as the Pope granteth to any in England 40. They admit of more Councels then the four General Councels 41. The Pope in these Ages is stiled Bishop of the whole World He is said to exercise this his Supremacy in place of S. Peter who is call'd the first Pastor of the Church and Prince of the Apostles is the ordinary name by which then at every word they call'd S. Peter S. Peter also owneth the deeds of his Successors who also give the blessing of S. Peter to Kings as to inferiors for without all contradiction the less is bless'd by the better as S. Paul saith Heb. 7. v. 7. Hence also as a father he calleth Kings his sons 42. He sends Apostolick Preachers over the world 43. Those who divide from Prelats commissioned by him are accounted Schismaticks and God bringeth ruine upon them as is miraculously by such Prelats prophecied unto them They also by manifest Miracle are convicted to follow falsity 44. The Tradition of the Church is to be held and that of the Church of Rome is preferr'd before all other 45. The Church of Rome held at this time Catholick and Apostolick 46. The yearly Feasts kept by us after the custom of the Roman Church 47. Conformity to be held with that Church which is spread over the face of the Earth 48. Decrees of Councels to be observ'd and that it is a damnable sin to hold against the Church when we are fully certified that she teacheth such or such a point contrary unto us 49. All these things were believ'd and practis'd by the English Church at that Age in which she in all things followed the Catholick Rule As here Bede testifieth Behold dear Countrymen near half a hundred things all to be seen by thee in that old English Church of which not any one can be seen in the present English Church This thou beholding attentively with thy own eies without any noise of disputation or intanglement of captious arguments wilt be able manifestly to conclude that all these half hundred points so oppos'd and scoffed at by all Protestants shew those ancient English not to have been Protestants And to see this thou canst not but have learning enough if thou canst but read It is also here as clearly to be seen that no one of those Religions with which England doth now so abound was the Religion of those daies And that all that you most scoff at in the Religion which you call Popery was then most in use Now lest thou shouldest not observe these thing as thou readest this little book I have everywhere in the Margent noted down for thee all the places where every one of these half hundred points may be beheld by thee in the short passage through this Book In less then a quarter of an hour thou by casting an eye upon these Marginal notes maiest take a sufficient proof of any point here mentioned and see if what I say be not as clearly to be seen in the practise of this old pure Church as it is here set down by me in this Summary of such things as are in this Book to be view'd Whence the Reader cannot but see either the gross ignorance or over-lashing boldness of Dr. Henry Ferne who durst lately say that the faith which England cast off in Hen. the 8. his daies or rather in the daies of Q. Fliz. was not the same faith which was brought into England at our conversion under S. Gregory and thac if we had kept that faith the English Church could not justly have in this Age divided from the former English Church And yet neither he nor any though never so learned a Protestant Dr. is able to shew the time when or the place where or the persons who or the means ●y which or any one single point in which all England chang'd the faith receiv'd under S. Gregory That faith as we prov'd in the beginning of this Preface was the same which the Scots had receiv'd in the fourth Age and which the old Britans received even in the beginning of the 2d Age after Christs Passion not full 100. years after the Scripture was finisht At that t●me then undoubtedly the faith of England was uncorrupt You have east off the faith agreeing in all points now in controversie with that faith therefore you have 〈◊〉 off the true faith And this very faith is the only faith which England cannot now endure but forceth us point by point to abjure in her new coined oath of Abjuration so unlike is this present English Church to the Old English Church If this short Work makes thee not to see this with thy eies I desire no kind of credit with thee but if with thy own eies thou seest all this then I beseech thee as thou lovest thy own soul not to let those find credit with thee who would perswade thee that to be false which thy eies tell thee to be most true I know there is no way to answer this so palpable a conviction but by finding some shift to detract from this Historie what shift this will be I cannot devise First Thou canst not say that the History saith not what we make it say For we

1. c. 4. did not pretend any cause of division from Augustines Doctrine about Mass use of the Crosse and Images worship of Saints and Relicks or any other point wherein we and Protestants differ A demonstrative argument that none of these things brought in by Augustine were contrary to what was delivered to the Britans not a full hundred years after the Apostles time So that as long as Augustines Religion was kept in England the Apostles Religion was kept Chap. 3. Augustine ordain'd two Bishops Mellitus Justus Mellitus he sent to preach to the Province of the East Saxons whose chief City is London As soon as the Province by Mellitus preaching had receiv'd the word of Truth King Ethelbert built St. Pauls Church in London where Mellitus and his successors ever after were to hold their Bishops Seat Justus was ordain'd by him Bishop of Rochester in Kent where Ethelbert built St. Andrew the Apostles Church After this the dearly beloved Father in God Augustine dyed and his body was laid by the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Canterbury which after it was finisht was brought in and honourably buried in the North-part thereof where also were interred the bodies of all the Archbishops following as long as there was room This Church hath an Altar in it dedicated to the honour of St. Gregory Pope at which Altar every Saturday the Commemoration of these departed Bishops is celebrated by the Priest of the place Upon St. Augustines Tomb is written Here resteth Augustine the first Archbishop of Canterbury who being sent hither by blessed Gregory Bishop and by working of Miracles supported by God brought King Ethelbert and his People from Idolatry to the Faith of Christ He dyed the 26. of May CHAP. 4. Laurence succeeded him in the Bishoprick whom Augustine yet living ordain'd least after his death the State of the Church rude as yet and newly converted might have wavered and faln if it had lackt a Pastour and guide never so little Wherein he followed the example of the first Pastour of the Church the most blessed Prince of the Apostles Peter who having laid at Rome the foundation of Christs Church consecrated Clement his Coadjutor and Successor Laurence seeing the ground-work of his Church to enlarge which was well and throughly laid endeavoured to raise the same to a perfect height by frequent exhortations and continual example of pious works He earnestly laboured as a true Shepheard not onely for the modern Church of the English but also for the Church of the old Inhabitants of Britany and Scots in Ireland whose profession as soon as h● knew to be lesse Ecclesiastical and not well ordered in many points especially about Easter they not celebrating it in due time He wrote unto them beseeching them to receive and keep the society of Catholike observance with the Church of Christ spread over the whole world To our dearest brethren the Bishops and Abbots in Scotland Laurence Mellitus c. When the See Apostolike according to the usuall manner of sending to all parts of the world directed us hither to preach the word of God We c. About this time Mellitus Bishop of London went to Rome for advice of the Apostolike Pope Boniface and for necessary causes of the English Church This Pope call'd a Councel of Bishops to appoint some order concerning the life of Monks Mellitus sate among them to the end that what there was legally decreed he confirming might bring with him to the English Church as precepts and rules to be observed He brought also letters from the Pope to Laurence Archbishop to the Clergy and the King This Pope cleansed the Temple Pantheon converting it into a Church in honour of our Lady and the Martyrs Chap. 5. In the year 613. Ethelbert King of Kent after he had raigned six and fifty years entred into eternal blisse the one and twentieth year after he had receiv'd the Faith and was interr'd in St. Martins Porch within the Church of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul Edbald his son much harm'd the tender sprigs of the Church but Gods scourge was not wanting for both an unclean spirit and a fr●nzie possest him Moreover the death of Sabereth King of the East Saxons and Nephew to Ethelbert much encreased the persecution of the Church who going hence to the everlasting kingdome left three sons who all fell to Idolatry These Princes seeing the Bishop in the Church after he had said Mass giving to the people the Sacrament said unto him Why doest thou not give us also of that white bread To whom he answered If you will be washt in that wholesome Font wherein your Father was you may also eat of this blessed bread but if you contemn the laver of life you may not tast● the bread of life Hereupon the King commanded Mellitus and all his company to depart the Realm so he and Justus went over into France Chap. 6. Laurence the Archbishop being now ready to forsake Britany and follow Mellitus and Justus commanded the night before he was to go that his bed should be laid in the Saints Peter and Paul● Church where after many prayers and tears powr'd out to God for the State of the Church the blessed Prince of the Apostles appearing in his sleep unto him scourged him a good while and with Apostolicall Authority asked him Why he meant to forsake the flock which he himself had committed unto him and to what Shepheard running now away he would leave the sheep of Christ beset with ravening Wolves By these stripes and the words of St. Peter Laurence the servant of God imboldned came and presented himself to the King and throwing open his garment shew'd him how pittifully he had been beaten When the King all amazed demanded who durst inflict such stripes upon a man of his dignity when he understood it was for his salvation and that by the Apostle of Christ he became afraid and abandoning the worship of Idols and his unlawfull wedlock embraced the Faith of Christ and was baptized promoting the good of the Church to the utmost of his power He call'd home Mellitus and Justus commanding them to return to their Churches and instruct their flock Thus the King with all his Subjects from that day that he was converted submitted himself to the Precepts of God He built a Church in honour of our Lady the blessed Mother of God within the Abbey of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles which Mellitus hollowed Chap. 7. Relates How the holy Archbishop Laurence departing hence to heaven his body was buried in the Abbey-Church of St. Peter the Apostle Mellitus of London succeeded in the See of Canterbury the third after Augustine who by birth was noble but nobler by his singular virtue It chanced that the City of Canterbury was set on fire and great part consum'd and the raging flames drew nigh

a Monasticall and Solitary life than all worldly wealth After some years spent in a Monastery he made a Voyage to Rome to see what rights and ceremonies were observed there as well of Seculars as Religious He told the Queen the desire he had to visit the Monuments of the Holy Apostles which she approved At Rome he became acquainted with a Holy learned Arch-deacon called Boniface one of the Apostolike Popes Councellors by whose instructions he learnt the foure Books of the Gospell and Easter and many other things concerning the discipline of the Church which he could not attaine to in his Country Returning into England he was favoured by King Alfrid who had learned to follow in all things the Catholike Rules of the Church This King finding Wilfrid Catholick gave him Stamford and Rippon which the Scots had before to build Abbeies He was made Priest and followed the the Kings Court as Preacher and not long after was made Bishop by Agilbert Bishop of Paris In King Egfrids raigne he was deprived of his Bishoprick of Yorke and another ordeyned in his place Wilfrid going to Rome to plead his cause before the Apostolike Pope was driven into Frizland where he preacht unto them Christ And where many thousands being cōverted and baptized by him he was the first began this Evangelicall work which the most Reverend Bishop Willebrord afterwards finished Wilfrid having past the VVinter with his new Converts reassumed his journey to Rome where his cause was debated in presence of Pope Agatho many Bishops He was found by all their judgments to be without any fault and worthy of the Bishoprick The Pope gathered a Sinod at Rome of 125 Bishops against those who held but one will and operation in Christ Wilfrid sate among them where he was to declare his Faith and the Faith of his Countrey which was found to be Catholick This was thus registred in the Acts. Wilfrid the vertuous Bishop of Yorke appealing to the See Apostolike for his cause and by that Authority absolved and placed in Judgement Seat in the synod together with 125. other Bishops hath declared for all the Northerne parts of Britany the true and Catholike Faith confirming the same with subscription Wilfrid at his returne converted the South-Saxons and in the second year of King Aldefrid was restored to his Bishoprick After five years being again turned out he followed his appeale at Rome and his accusers being present he again was acquitted Returning through France he fell sick to death and told Acca how in that sicknesse one appeared to him in a white habit telling him that he was St Michael who said to him I am sent by God to recall thee from death For our Lord hath given thee life by the intercession of our Lady Mother of God but remaine prepared for after foure years I will come again to visite thee Thou shalt be restored to the greatest part of thy possessions and end thy life in peace Recovering he came into England where King Aldefrid refusing to restore him shortly dyeth Then a Synod is called by the votes of all he is reestablisht After four years of Peace he died in a Monastery of Abbot Cudbalds but entered in his own Monastery at Rippon in the Blessed Apostle St. Peters Church by the Altar These Verses are in his Epitaph Wilfrid that worthy Prelate Lyeth buried in this grave Who mov'd with Godly Zeale To Christ this Temple gave And of the Apostle Peters name St. Peters Church did call Christ gave To whom the Keyes of Heaven Cheif Governour of all He guilded it with finest gold With Scarlet hung it round And set up there a Crucifix Of Gold even from the ground Chap. 21. Acca succeeded Wilfrid in the Bishoprick of York a man for his courage and gallant deeds gracious in the sight of God and Man He enlarged the Church dedicated to St. Andrew and adorned it with many exquisite works He did both then and doth at this very day endeavour to gather together the Holy Apostles and Martyrs Reliques that he may in their honor build Altars He provided Holy Vessels lights and other necessaries appertaining to the better adorning the Church of God Chap. 22. Naitan King of the Picts abandoning the Errours which he and his Country had long kept touching Easter brought them all to the Catholike observation which that he might effect he required aide of the English whom he knew to have fram'd their Religion according to the Church of Rome and See Apostolike He sent Embassadors to that end to Reverend Abbot Ceolfrid of the Monastery of St. Peter and Paul He requested further to be instructed what manner of Tonsure the Clergy then should use He desired to have some cunning workmen sent him to build a Church after the manner of Rome promising to dedicate it in the honor of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and to follow ever more the order and faith of the Church of Rome and See Apostolike In Ceolfrids letter to the King be these words We exhort you most humbly to take care that your Clergy may beare the same Tonsure which the Church doth receive For as all congregations of the faithfull are accustomed to carry the signe of the Crosse in the forehead that by the power thereof they may be defended from the assaults of the Devil and by often remembrance of it be instructed so it behoveth them who being made by vow Monks or by profession of the Clergy binde themselves more strictly with the bridle of continencie to beare on the Head by shaving the shape of a Crown as our Saviour did a Crowne of Thornes at his Passion as well to express their ready minde to suffer mockeries for Christ as strengthen their hope for a Crowne of glory In the same letter he Relateth what concerning this point he said to the Scotish Abbot Adaman I said quoth he Brother if you seek the fellowship of St. Peter why do you follow the manner of shaving which he used whom St. Peter did excommunicate and why rather shew you not that you desire with your heart his character with whom you desire to live in blisse If you desire to follow his steps and counsell whom you took to have as a Patron with God the Father then he commands thus It beseemeth you most puissant Prince to observe all that agreeth with the unity of Christs Catholick and Apostolick Church So it will come to passe that the Prince of the Apostles will open to you and yours the gates of Heaven By this advise in short time this Prince with all his dominions was brought to the true observation of Easter all the Ministers of the Altar and Monks had their heads shaven round in forme of a Crowne and the whole Nation being reformed did rejoyce to see themselves disciples of the most blessed Prince of