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A07146	The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1563 (1563)	STC 1755; ESTC S101368	243,805	590

the Sacramentall wyne after consecration the frute of the vyne what other thing is that to saye than to call it wine Nynthly The naturall corporall substantiall and reall body of Christ whiche he receaued of Marye the Uirgin is denyed to be in the Sacrament of the altare I aunswere The Sacrament is an holy signe of the body and bloud of Christ whiche whosoeuer receaueth worthely and accordyng to Christes institution receaueth the very bodye and bloude of Christe yea whole Christ thorow faith which is the mouth of y e soule so y t he is incorporate made one w t Christ fleshe of his flesh and bone of hys bones Tenthly The mariage of Pristes is admitted I answere It is in the word of God no where denyed Gods Priests in the olde lawe were al maryed men and had wyues The Apostles of Christ and the Byshops and Ministers of the Primatiue Church and many hundred yeares after til the Bishop of Rome playd the tyraunt and right Antichrist in forbydding and condemning the mariage of Priestes were all maryed men At this present also in all the congregations of God whersoeuer the pope is not admitted to be supreme head the Bishops and Ministers of the Churche do freely marye wiues Neither was the mariage of Priestes euer forbydden in any nation till the Byshop of Rome and hys adherentes brought in that deuilyshe decree of the single lyfe of Priestes that thys Prophecie of Saint Paule myght be fulfilled The spirite speaketh euidently that in the later tymes some shall departe from the fayth and shall geue hede vnto spirites of errour and deuelyshe doctrines of them whiche speake false through hypocrisye and haue their consciences marked with an hoate yron forbidding to marye and commaundyng to abstayne from meates whiche God hath created to be receaued with geuyng thankes of them whiche beleue and know the truth For all the creatures of God are good c. Are not these the wordes of the holy Apostle To auoyde fornication let euery man haue his owne wyse and euery woman her owne husband Agayne Wedlocke is honourable among all persons â–ª and the bed vndefiled That God hath made free â–ª no man ought to make bonde Eleuenthly The vowes of obedience pouertie and chastitie are broken and not obserued of the Cloisterers Monkes Friers Chanons Nunnes Anckers Anckeresses c. I aunswere with the Preacher A foolish and an vnfaithful vow displeaseth God Whatsoeuer is not of fayth is sinne sayth the Apostle But these monasticall vowes are not of fayth for they haue no grounde in the worde of God therfore are they sinne What Godlynesse can there be in the vowe of pouertye seyng that the vowers thereof caste awaye all laboure contrarye to the commaundement of God and lyue idlely vnder the pretence of long prayer and are fedde lyke Epicures and belly-gods of the laboures of other mens handes and of the sweat of other mens browes And what poynte of holynesse is in their vowe of obedience seyng they vowe it to the Pope and to their Abbotes and Prioures and vtterlye denye to be obedience to the temporall Princes and Rulers to whome they owe obedience by the worde of God vnder payne of daÌ„nation As touching their vow of chastitie who knoweth not that it is both foolishe and presumptuous Can there be any greater folly or presumption in the worlde than to worshippe God with our own inuentions to vowe that vnto him whyche lyeth not in power to fulfill Oure Sauiour Christ sayth All can not awaye with this saying That is to liue vnmaryed but they to whom it is geuen The wise man also sayeth I knowe that I can not lyue chaste except God geue me the gyfte To striue againste God and nature is mere madnesse Twelfthly The fasting dayes are not so religiously with such abstineÌ„ce obserued â–ª as heretofore they haue bene I answere the people in times yast haue ben taught of their curates â–ª on those dayes whiche the Church that is to say the Pope and the Byshops hath commaunded to be fasted that they should faste vnder payne of deadly sinne abstayne from fleshe and eate but one meale that daye To make that sinne whiche is not contrary to the worde of God is the doctrine of Antichrist To thynke it more acceptable to God for to catelfishe than to eate flesh is mere madnesse and plaine superstition seyng that all the creatures of God are good nothynge is to be cast alwaye that is receaued with thankes geuing All thynges are pure to them that are pure And those thinges whiche God hath made cleane no man ought to iudge vncleane NotwithstaÌ„ding such dayes of abstinence as are commaunded by the Prince and receaued by publique order are still with great reuerence and high deuotion religiously obserued and keept when notwithstanding we right well knowe that the true and Christen faste is to abstayne from sinne and to practise vertue to cease to do our owne will and to accomplishe the good pleasure of God and at all tymes to lyue temperatly and soberly as our Sauioure Christ sayth Take heede to your selues least any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfetting and droncknesse and cares of this lyfe Thyrtenthly Iustification is taught by fayth alone without workes I aunswere The Prophet saith A ryghteous man shall lyue by hys owne fayth And the holye Apostle sayth We playnly affirme that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the lawe Agayne we haue beleued on Iesus Christ that we myght be iustified by the faith of Christ and not by the deedes of the lawe bicause by the deedes of the lawe no fleshe shall be iustified Faith bicause it alone apprehendeth and layeth hande on the mercifull promises of God is counted alone to iustifie when notwithstanding it is God alone that iustifieth as s. Paul sayth It is God that iustifieth This faith is no dead and idle worke of the holy Ghost in the hearts of the faithfull but liuely and mightie in operation as Sainct Paule sayth Faith whiche worketh mightely by loue And this loue whiche issueth out of a pure heart and out of a good conscience and out of a faith vnfayned is so feruent and stronge that it brasteth out into good workes and can no more cease to worke â–ª than fyre can cease to burne when mete matter is ministred vnto it or the Sunne cease to shyne when the tyme of the cleere daye requireth Therfore a faythfull man is compared to a tree planted by the riuer side whiche bringeth forth her frute in due tyme. For whensoeuer occasion is offered to a faythfull man to worke he worketh strayghtwayes yea and that freely and willingly with out any compulsion or feare And yet doth not he these good workes to be iustified by theÌ„ for he is already iustified by fayth but to shewe that his faith is true

Blesensis sharplye wrote vnto the white Monckes of that tyme on thys manner By the testimony of the holy Scripture tenthes ar the tributes of the nedye soules And what an immunitie or fredome is this that ye haue agaynste al ryght that ye shuld be exempted and set at libertye from the paymente of â—ythes whereunto the landes were bonde before they wer yours which also hitherto haue alwaies bene payde to the Churches â–ª not by y e meanes making of any persons but bicause it was due to the Churche in that it is lande Nowe if the landes become into your possession whye should an other man therefore loose hys ryghte For by the common law the landes are come vnto you with all manner of charges Wherefore then vnto the greate damage hurte iniurye and wronge of other men doe ye procure your landes and pastures to be priuiledged that by this meanes ye may take awaye an other mans right against al equitye and iustice against al right and conscience Dyd not Abell offer to the Lorde the fyrst lynges of hys Shepe Are ye more ryghteous than he which was the first righteous of al men that ye should lift vp your self against the iustice of God By hys Prophetes God commaundeth that the tythes shuld be brought into hys barne but ye commaund that they shoulde be caryed away from his barne The ryghteous lawe of God commaundeth that the tenthes shuld bee payde to the Leuites whereof it necessarilye followeth that he doth resiste the ordinaunce of God that goeth aboute to take waye from the Ministers of the Churche theyr ryght of tythes c. And a little after he sayth Whatsoeuer priuileges be graunted vnto you of the churche of Rome yet doe I not thynke that it is expedient for you to do any thyng that is agaynste your conscience or to vsurpe y e thyng which is none of yours what if ye had a commaundement from that see of Rome that whersoeuer ye finde Clerkes priestes or monkes ryding it should be lawfull for you to vnhorse theÌ„ and to set them besides the saddle yea and to retayn the horses vnto your own vses Were it ryght and accordyng to good conscience that ye shuld thus doe What difference is there whether ye take awaye the horses or the tythes but that the tenth is a spiritual matter and therfore it is a more greuous synne to steale awaye the tythes than the horses yea it is playne sacrilege and an vtter robbyng of god and of hys Ministers When God coÌ„maundeth that tythes should be payd whoe can geue a dispensation contrarye to hys commaundemente When the lawe of God commaundeth one thyng and mans madnesse willeth the contrarye in thys pointe we muste obeye God more than men And when there be two lawes an outwarde and an inwarde lawe verely the inwarde lawe ought to preuayle and take place before the outwarde lawe euermore and that which a pure and clere conscience sayth vnto me ought more to be regarded than the outward commauÌ„demente of any man yea it ought to put awaye and to make of no force all manner of indulgences priuileges grauntes immunities liberties freedomes c. Whatsoeuer they be that man graunteth If the Children of Israel at the commaundement of the Lorde for recompence of theyr long seruice which they did to the vnthankfull Egiptians toke away from them theyr vessels of Golde Siluer yet is it not mete that you shuld draw this vnto your purpose excepte ye bee able to shewe y t the Lorde hath commaunded you thus to doe agayn that you haue long serued vs as Egiptians It is therefore better for you and more semely y t you cast away this your couetous ambition which greatly disgraceth the titles of your holinesse and y t you cause the people no more thus to speake euil of you and to be offended with thys your doings for the vniuste retayning of transitorye thynges Wo be vnto them by whom offence commeth Neyther bee ye of this opinion that your condition or state of liuyng shuld in any point be hyndred through the restitution of other mens goodes For if any thyng be diminished by this meanes of the temporal commodityes and profites the deuotion of the people whiche is nowe greatlye decayed towarde you shall recompence all that double and treeble But if in this behalf ye shewe your selues stubborn and froward and will by no menaes be blowed we will excommunicate and curse all them that eyther shall geue or sell vnto you anye thing wherof the right of tithes shuld come to the Ministers of Gods worde and we will also cry vnto the heauens and we wyll appeale vnto the throne of the hye iudge that this bonde of excommunication be not losoned tyll a redresse be had c. Petrus Blesensis Baâ—honiensis Archidiacouus in Epi. 78. Of Tythes and offryngs POpe Vrban the first ordained that the oblations of Christen menne should none otherwise be spente than in vse of holy churche and in helpe of the nedy Christians For they are saith he the vowes of the christiaÌ„s the price of syn In his time the church of Rome began fyrste to haue landes and rents and with the profit thereof the aforesaide Pope founde Notaries and Clearkes to wryte the liues and actes of the holy Saincts Before this time holy churche that is to saye Bishops priestes liued as the Apostles did and receiued only money to the vse of the poore and nedy Christians In the yeare of our Lorde 222. Ranulphus Cestrensis Chronica Pope Gregory the first ordained that the goods of the church should be deuided into foure partes The first to the bishop to fynde himselfe and his familie and to maintayne hospitalitie for the reliefe of such as are in necessitie The ii to the cleargy The thirde to poore men The fourth to the reparation of the churches In the yeare c. 590. Polichron Pope Paschalis made a decree that y e tenthes shoulde bee geuen to the priestes In the yeare c. 827. Qu. 19. cap. 1. Decimas a populo Pope Gregory the Seuenth made a streighte lawe that no temporal man should possesse any tenthes that be due to the church In the yere c. 173. Qu. 5. cap. 16. Decimas He pronounceth all such gilty of sacrilege and in daunger of euerlastyng damnation that withholde any tythes from the priests be they either bishops or kinges or any other persons The tenths saith he must nedes be paid according to this saieng of the prophete Malachy See that ye bring in all your tythe into my Barne that there maye be meate in my house Pope Calixte made a decree that if any Prince or other layâ—man toke vpon him either the disposition or the rule or yet the possession of any church goodes he should bee adiudged and taken for a committer of sacrilege In the yere c. 217. Caus. 6. Q. 7. Si

children we must fast and folow the same rule that they vsed And therfore we fast foure times First in march The secoÌ„d at Whitsontyde The third betwene haruest seedetyme And the fourth before Christmasse Marche is a time that drieth vp the moysture that is in the earth Wherefore we fast that time to drie the earth of our body of the humours that be noyous to the bodye and to the soule For that tyme the humours of letchery tempteth a maÌ„ most of any time of the yeare Also we do fast at Whitsontyde to get grace of the holy Ghost that we may be in loue and charitie to God and to all the worlde â–ª Charitas cooperit multitudinem peccatorum Charitie couereth the multitude of sinnes Also we must faste for to haue meekenesse in oure heartes and to put awaye all pride y t renueth within vs. Also we faste betwene haruest and sede time for to haue grace to gather frutes of good workes into the house of oure conscience and so by ensample of good liuing among the people that we bee common with both ryche and poore Also we faste in winter for to slea all stinckyng weedes of sinne and of foule earth and fleshly lustes y t maketh good Angells good people to withdrawe them from vs. For ryghte as a nettle brenneth roses and other flowers that growe nie him In the same wyse a vicious man or woman styrreth and setteth on fyre them y t bene in his companye And for these causes we faste foure times in the yeare euery tyme three dayes y e betokeneth three speciall vertues that helpeth a man to grace y t is fasting deuoute praying and almesse dede doing And by opinioÌ„ of much people these daies bene called Imber daies bicause y t our elder Fathers would on these dayes eate no breade but cakes made vnder ashes So y t by the eatyng of y t thei reduced into their minde that they were but ashes and so shoulde turne agayne and wiste not how sone and by that tourned away from all delicious meates and drinkes and tooke none heede but y t they had easye sustenaunce This caused them to thynke on death and y â— wil cause a man to desire no more thaÌ„ him nedeth and to abstayne hymselfe froÌ„ al manner of bodily lusts to encrease in vertues wherby we may come to euerlasting blesse And at a councell holden at Magonce it was decreed y t when those Imberdayes come they shoulde bee fasted of all people and that they shoulde on those daies come deuoutly vnto church and heare Masse and geue themselues to prayer and deuotion Libro Concil Pope Innocent the thyrde made a decree that all the Apostles euens should be fasted excepte the euens of Phillip and Iacob and of Iohn the Euangeliste In the yere c. 1195. Lib. 3. accretal Gregorij Cap. 2. de obseruatione ieiunij Chron. Germani The same pope also appoynted that the euen of Mathias shoulde also bee fasted as one of y e Apostles euens and y t if the daye of Mathias be on the monday y e euen shall be fasted on the saterday and not on the sonday Ibidem Pope Vrban the syxt commaunded y e the euens of these feasts of our Lady y t is to say the visitation y e assumption natiuitye should be fasted In the yere c. 1371. Lib. Concil Chron. Germ. Pope Boniface the fyrst ordayned y e saints euens shuld be solemnely fasted In the yeare c. 425. The same ordinaunce is also ascribed to pope Gregorye y e second Chron Germa Pope Honorius the thirde made a decree y t if y e feast of y e natiuitye of Christ chaunce to fall vpon the Friday yet it shall be lawful for al men to eate flesh on that day excepte it be suche as haue vowed to the contrary In the yere c. 1214. Lib 3. decret Gregorij de obseruatione ieiunij Pope Gregory the fyrst coÌ„maunded y t neyther fleshe nor any thyng y t hath affinitye with fleshe as Chese Milke Egges c shoulde bee eaten on suche dayes as are appoynted to bee fasted In the yeare c. 560. Grat. Pol. Pantale Pope Eusebius made a lawe y t all suche feastes as are commaunded of priests in the Church to be fasted shuld in no condition bee broken excepte necessitie compell any man to the contrarye In the yeare c. 309. Lib. Concil Chron. Germ. In the festiuall we reade that these sortes of people be priuileged and exempted from the lawe of fastyng that is to say Children y t bene within age Women y t bee with childe Olde people y t bene myghtlesse weake and impotente And finally labouryng people as pilgrimes and like people those that the lawe dispenseth with vppon theyre conscience Dominica prima in quadragesima In the Councell Gangrense it was decreed y t if any person of presumption woulde despyse to faste suche dayes as were coÌ„maunded of holy churche he shuld be excommunicate and be taken of the Christen congregation as an Ethnike and Publicane Libro Concil Barthol Carrantz The Popes decrees affirme playnly as Guilielmus Durandus testifyeth that whosoeuer eateth any thyng beefore Masse bee done on suche dayes as are appoynted by holy church to be fasted the same committeth deadly synne In Rat. di off Lib. Concil In the Councell Braccarense it was agreed y t al the Apostles euens shoulde be fasted excepte the euens of these Apostles Phillip and Iacob and Iohn the Euangeliste as we to fore heard oute of the decree of Pope Innocent y e thyrde For the feast of Phillip and Iacob is betwene Easter and Witsontide which is a tyme of ioye and gladnesse therfore is there no fastyng accordyng to thys old rule Inter Pen et Paâ— non est Dirige neque fasting day And y e feast of â— Iohn the Euangelist is at Christmasse wheÌ„ men muste make good cheere and bee frolyke and mery Guilielmus Durandus Lib. Concil The Councell Chalcedonense made a decree y t they should be counted by no meanes to faste which taste any meate or drinke before euenyng prayer bee done Lib. Concil Iacobus de Voragine in his boke entituled Historia Longobardica sheweth a reason whye the Imberdayes bee rather fasted on the Wednisday Friday and Saterdaye than on the Mondaye Tuesday and Thursday For saith he the Lorde Iesus was betrayde of Iudas on the Wednisday And on y e Fridaye he was crucified And on the Saterday following he lay in hys sepulchre and the Apostles were very sadde for the death of their Lorde Of Holy dayes and of Feastes of Sainctes with such like POpe Pius the fyrst ordayned y t Easter daye shoulde be celebrated and kept holy euer on the Sondaye In the yere of our Lorde 147. Libro Concil Polyd. D. Barns Pantal. Pope Gregory the fyrst approued and allowed the feast of the Trinitie which Pope Alexander woulde by

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