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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14251	The olde fayth of greate Brittaygne, and the newe learnynge of Inglande wherunto is added a symple instruction, concernynge the Kinges Maiesties procedinges in the co[m]munyon. Compyled by R.V.	R. V., fl. 1549.	1549 (1549)	STC 24566; ESTC S119007	13,729	40

had him avoy de but I thinke Syluester sent for him ād receaued that which Chryst refused / and it maye well appeare to be from thence For sence the same pope syluester receaued the possessions which was almost .iiij. c. yeres after CHRIST he his successours for the most part haue euer sence persecuted the trewe CHRYSTYANES and that ye may perceaue the setting furth of the scryptures in those dayes was not for euery man / by the reasō it was so chargeable But it was onely a prynces worke as Chrodoryke bisshop of Cirocopolis in the fyrst booke of hys story the .xvi. chapter maketh mencion of an Epystle sent by the forsayde constantine to Eusehuis the tenour wherof is this It hath semed vs good to sygnyfye vnto the that thou prepare L. volumes of the scryptures and pryneye pally those the which thou knoweste to be necessary to the institucion doctryne and vsage which hath been accustumed to be geuen to the churches and let them be writtē in good Parchement and well trined by good worckmen hauing good knowledge in the acte of the scryptures And we also haue sēt letters to our general geuernoue of the prouinces to take charge and dyligē tly to minister al thynges necessary / to the restoring of the same volumes and it to be thy worke and dilygently to enforce thy selfe that the same volumes maye be shortly ready and appareylled as it apperteyneth And further by the aucthorytie of our letters Sealed by vs sent to the we giue the power to take and vse openly .ij. Charets or cartes to cause the sayd volumes dylygently to be conueyed to the citie of constātinople Gētle reader / here may ye se what paynes and charges it was to thys noble Emperour to set furth the scryptures in those dayes Iohn Caryon sayth in the. 3. boke of hys chronicle that thys constantine caused the newe Testament to be carryed before him for a wytnes of hys saith I praye you wherfore dyd constantine set furth these scryptures Truly because y● wicked Dyoclesyan the. xxxv Emperour in the .ix. yeare of hys reygne / which was about the yeare of Chryst 288. as Cation wrytteth / dyd as appeareth in the seuently boke the second chapter of Eusebius story cause thys proclamacyon followyng / to be proclaymed which was that the churches of the christyans whiche myght be founde shuld be ouerthrowen to the fondacions the bokes and scryptures burned and that all those of that relygyon which had any dignitie or office shuld be put forth remaine ashamed and that those slaues which perseuered in the chrysten fayth myght not obtayne lybertie the occasyon herof was that the heretyke Manicheus had fowen dissention amonge the chrystians O Lorde haue we not had thy scrypturs brent in curdayes Yf we aske wynchester and London / they wyll laye yea yea and so say I to But ye may beleue me I was very heauye whē I heard of it yea / and as heauye as they are now sory that they be printed agayne But thankes be to the lorde our kinges maiesteacute may go farther wyth hundreth pounde in printing then constantine might haue done wyth thre thousand pounde in wrytynge For the lacke of bokes caused the bysshops of Rome and his ayders to preuayle in all counsels sence the fyrst Yea and in all the xxiij scismes past / to rule all thīges as they wolde and to make what they wolde and discalow what they wolde But in this the xxiiii scisme or deuision I trust the byssho pe of Rome and all his Papistes shall be ouerthrowen through that word of GOD which by the prynt is aboūdantly spredde abrode in all Chrystendome A worke which God neuer opened to man sence the worlde began tyll the yeare of Chryst M iiii c. lii which in that yere was opened to one called Iohannes faustius in the Cytie of Magunce or menth in Germany Wherfore let vs giue god thākes reioyce that he hath sēt vs in these our dayes that science wherby al those that loue the lyght maye haue the same for alytle charges / I meane the worde of God who is the Aucthour of lyght By whose lyght the kyngs maiestye with hys honorable coūsel goeth about to ouerthrowe the Popes mastres Missa the successour of the Israelytes / ne husthan Wherfor / let vs daily pray to that lorde the Aucthour of the canonicall scryptures / that he wyll pro sper the Kinges maiestie with my Lorde protectour and his honorable cōsell / in the setting furth of his worde So that through hys helpe they may ouercome the ennemies of the same hys worde and of his graces royalmes and dominions Amen Finis