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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

received of the Saints in heaven Which practise in those dayes many English both of Nobles and Commons Spirituall and temporall Men and Women were wont to performe with exceeding emulation Chap. 8. Relates How Theodore Arch-Bishop of Canterbury departed this life very aged and how the number of years he lived were signified unto him by revelation He was buried in St. Peters Church A man worthy of perpetuall remembrance for his singular vertues of whom with his companions it may be said That their names shall live in glory from generation to generation Then the Church of England received such comfort and encrease in spirituall matters that it never received the like before nor after Chap. 9. Berechwald succeedeth Theodore in Canterbury who was Abbot of Rashwulfe now called Reculver in Kent a man well knowing in the holy Scripture skilfull in Ecclesiasticall and Monasticall orders and discipline He consecrated Toby Bishop of Rochester one expert in the Latine and Greek Tongue Chap. 10. Relates How Egbert a Reverend Priest and servant of God to obtaine Heaven led a Pilgrims life in Ireland He took upon him the office of an Apostle desirous to preach the word of God to the German provinces which had not yet received it or if this could not be to travell to Rome to see and worship the Tombes of the blessed Apostles and Martyrs But by revelation from Heaven neither of these was effected For Boisell once Abbot of Mailrose appearing after Mattins to a Religious Man bad him go tell Egbert that he must not perform that Journey but that it was Gods will that he should go and instruct Columbe's Monastery This Columbe was the first Preacher of the Faith to the Picts and the first Founder of a Monastery in the Isle of Hu which was had in great estimation Egbert neglecting for awhile to go to the Monastery as he was commanded of God Boisell appeared again to that Religious man telling him that he should say to Egbert that whether he would or no he should go to Columb's Monastery Which so fell out For by tempest he was drive thither yet one of his companions Wigbert by name excelling in contempt of the world and profound knowledge for he had led an Anacorrites life in great perfection many years arrived in Frizland but without successe So he returned to his former solitary life Chap. 11. Egbert By Revelation from God not being suffered to preach in Germany he sent other holy and vertuous men of whom that notable and excellent man Willibrord Priest was chief They converted Frizeland from Idolatry to the Faith of Christ two other English Priests who had voluntarily liv'd in banishment in Ireland for hope of eternal life whose names were Henwald came into Saxony to win souls to Christ The barbarous observing them to be of another Religion for they sung Hymns Psalms and devoute Prayers and daily offered the sacrifice of the holy Host having with them holy Vessels a little Table hollowed instead of an Altar suspecting they came to withdraw their Land from worshipping their gods murthered them and to witness their Martyrdome there appeared Miracles from Heaven For their bodies being cast into the river of Rhene were carried almost forty mile against the main stream to their companions and a great bright beam of light reaching up to heaven shin'd every night over the place where their bodies were One of them appeared in the night to a companion of his nam'd Tilmon who of a Souldier was become a Monk telling him that he should find their bodies where he should see a light shine from heaven which happened accordingly The day of their Martyrdome or Invention is in those places celebrated with due veneration King Pipin with great glory entombed them at Collen T is reported that in the place in which they were killed a Spring bubbled up which to this day affordeth plenty of water Chap. 12. Willebrord with these Holy men his companions having license of the Prince to preach in Frizland went first to Rome where Sergius sate in the See Apostolike that by his approbation and benediction he might settle to the Apostolike office of preaching to the Heathens hoping withall to receive of him some Reliques of Christs holy Apostles and Martyrs that when casting out Idols he erected Churches he might have in readiness some holy Saints Reliques to bring in their place and to dedicate them in their honour whose Reliques he had received All things succeeding to his desire Swibert is chosen their Bishop and consecrated in England by Wilfred and returning converteth a great number At last building a Monastery in an Isle of the Rhene leading there a very austere and continent life he died His successors possesse the same to this day Pepin sent that vertuous and worthy Prelate Wilbrord to Rome by consent of all that he might be made Archbishop of Frizland upon Saint Cicilyes day Anno 690. and in her Church he was consecrated and named Clement by the Pope and sent to his Bishopri●k of Vtreckt in Holland He erected many Churches and Monasteries through the Countrey This Willebrord otherwise Clement liveth yet a Reverend Father Chap. 13. At the same time was wrought in Britany a Miracle worthy of perpetuall rememberance and not unlike to the ancient Miracles of times past A certaine man in Northumberland dead for a time rose againe to life and told many things worthy the relating of which we touch some few I am saith he truly risen again from the death but henceforth my conversation must be far unlike my former life Rising up he went to Church and continued there in prayer untill day Then he divided all his goods into three parts one he gave to his wife another to his children the third he gave in almes to the poor Then he entred into the Monastery of Maitrose and being shaven he made his abode in a secret habitation assigned him by the Abbot where he lived untill his dying day in such austerity of body that though his tongue had said nothing yet his life spake that he had seen many terrible things He related what he hath seen in this manner The Countenance apparel of my guide was ful of light we came to one great broad valley of infinite length all full of terrible fire there was also another valley intolerable with hail and snow Both places were full of souls tossed as with a whirlewind out of one into the other I began to think that this was Hell but my guide said Think not so Then having mentioned all the rest of the visions he relates how his guide told him That this valley so full of horrible flames and so bitterly cold was the place where their souls remain to be tried who deferring the Confession of their sins and amendment had recourse to Pennance at the point of death yet because they made

he was High Bishop over the whole world and appointed Governour of the Churches newly converted he made our Nation the Church of Christ which till then had been the bondslave of Idols so that we may truly make good the saying of the Apostle that although he were not an Apostle to others yet to us he was for the seale of his Apostleship we are in the Lord Laying aside his worldly Nobility by special grace from God he turn'd it to the purchasing of eternal glory in Heaven Putting off his secular habit he betook himself unto a Monastery where he liv'd in that perfection that as he was wont to witnesse with tears all transitory things became subject to him undervaluing the world and thinking on nothing but heavenly things and though immur'd in an earthly body by contemplation he surpast the natural bounds of flesh loving death as an entrance unto life All this he telleth of himself not boasting of his encrease in virtue but rather lamenting the want and decay thereof He swarv'd not from Monastical perfection by any occasion or trouble of his Ecclesiastical charge His House was like a well ordered Monastery for although he was taken thence and made Bishop and ordain'd to the Ministery of the Altar and sent Legat from the See Apostolike to Constantinople yet he never intermitted his wonted course of life but had with him Religious of the Monastery for the better keeping regular observance that by their example he might be fastned as with a strong Anchor to the pleasant port of prayer strengthening his soul by daily reading and conferring with them Whereas other Bishops took pains in building Churches and beautifying the same with gold and silver he altogether was employ'd in gaining souls What money he had he carefully distributed among the poor He made our Nation by Preachers sent hither partakers of eternal liberty This holy Pope ordain'd that in the Chappel of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul Masses should be said at their Bodies To the Canon of the Masse he added these words which still appear in our Mass dispose our dayes in peace free us from eternal damnation and number us in the stock of thine Elect. He was buried in S. Peters Church before the Vestrie T is reported that seeing British children sold at Rome he inquired what was the name of that nation they told him they were called Angels or English with good reason quoth he for they have an Angels face and it is fitting they should be inheritors with the Angels in Heaven Then he ask't the Name of the Province the Merchants said they were called Deires they may so quoth he for they shall be delivered from the Ire or anger of God and call'd to the mercy of Jesus Christ Then he asked the Kings Name they answered his Name was Alle St. Gregory alluding to his Name said Alleluja must be sung in that Princes Dominions Hereupon he besought the Bishop of the Roman Apostolike See for he was not then Bishop thereof to send into Britany Ministers of the Word for their conversion offering himself ready for that work if so it had pleas'd the Apostolick Pope but the Citizens of Rome would not let him goe so far from them Afterwards being Pope he accomplisht this good work so long desired sending thither divers Preachers he himself helping at home by Prayer and wholesome instructions Chap. 2. About this time Augustine call'd together the Bishops and Doctours of the greatest Province which was of the Britans perswading them as a Brother to Catholick unity and to hold communion with him For as yet they kept not Easter Sunday in due time but from the 14. to the 20. Moon They used also many other things contrary to the Unity of the Church which being shew'd unto them and that neither for entreaty nor rebukes of Augustine they would assent preferring their own traditions before all other Churches which through the whole world agreed with them This Father said unto them let us pray to God that he will vouchsafe to signifie unto us by some heavenly sign which tradition is to be followed Let some sick body be brought and by whose prayers he shall be healed let his Faith be believed His Adversaries granting unto it there was brought forth a blinde man who first presented to the British Priests when by them he was not cured Saint Augustine on his knees besought our Lord to restore sight unto him that so his grace might be enkindled in the hearts of many and forthwith the blind-man saw and Augustine was held of the people as the true Teacher For all this they assembled a second and greater Synod to which t is said seven British or Welch Bishops carne with many learned men especially from the chiefest Monastery of Bangor whereof Dinoch was Abbot All these openly refusing subjection to Augustine he said to them Although deare brethren in many points you do contrary to us or rather contrary to the custome of the Vniversall Church yet if you will in these things agree with us viz. To celebrate Easter in due time to administer baptism according to the manner of the holy Roman and Apostolike Church preaching with us the word of the Lord to this English Nation All your other Ceremonies Rites Observances and Customs though contrary to ours we will willingly bear with But they replyed they would doe none of these things nor hold him for their Archbishop Whereupon the man of God Augustine threatningly prophesied that since they waved peace with their brethren they should have war from their enemies and since they refus'd to preach the word of Life to the English Nation by their hands they should suffer death Which in all points came to passe as he had foretold For Edilfrid that valiant King of the English raising a mighty Army made a great slaughter of this wicked people For being about to give battel perceiving their Priests met together to pray for their Souldiers he asked who they were and to what end they met there Most of them were of the Monastery of Bangor in Wales where such a number of Monks are said to have been that their Monastery divided into seven parts with their Prelats no one of them had fewer than 300. Most of these having fasted three dayes met at the Camp to pray King Edilfrid understanding the cause of their convening If quoth he they invoke their God against us they fight against us though they bear no Arms Whereupon he commanded the charge to be made upon them and in the end though with losse he quite ruined the other Troops of this wicked Army They say there perisht in that battle about 1200 of those that were assembled to pray and so was accomplisht the Prophesie of Augustine the holy Bishop Note That these Welch Bishops living in the Faith receiv'd from Pope Eleutherius An. 156. as was said B.

resorting to that place where King Oswald shed his bloud were there cured Chap. 11. Among other miracles I cannot omit to relate what hapned when King Oswalds bones were translated to the Church where they now are When towards Evening the Charriot was come wherein the bones were they of the Monastery of Beandaman were unwilling to receive them for although they had known him for a blessed man yet by reason he was a Forreigner born and had subdued them by Conquest they hated his memory So it fell out that the Reliques remain'd abroad all night yet was there a great Pavilion extended over the Chariot where the Reliques were But a Miracle from heaven declared with how great reverence those Bones were to be receiv'd of all faithfull people for all night long a pillar of light stood reaching from the Chariot wherein they were unto Heaven clearly beheld almost in all places of the Province which made the Brethren of the Monastery now earnestly desire that those holy Reliques might be laid up in their House They were therefore enclos'd in a shrine and placed with honour in the Church The water wherewith his bones were washt being poured out in a corner of the Vestry from that day forward the earth which receiv'd it had a speciall virtue in driving Devils out of possest bodies An Abbesse who is yet alive desir'd some of the Earth to be given her upon which this water was poured out and with it returned home It hapned that a stranger came to her Monastery who was wont to be vext with an unclean Spirit and at night began to foame gnash his teeth and rage no body being able to hold him The Abbess repaires to that quarter where the Men lodg'd and calling the Priest went with him to the Patient Where the Priest began to say the exorcisme That not sufficing the Abbess commanded her Maid to go bring her the little cabbinet wherein that Earth we spoke of was reserv'd As soon as the Maid was come with it from the Nunns quarter into the Court of that House where the possess'd Person was he grew silent and began to rest and as it were sleep and soon after rising up he said I feel my self whole They asked him how this came to pass And he answered As soon as this Virgin with the Cabinet which she brought approch't the Court of the House all the wicked Spirits that molested me departed Then the Abbess gave him of that dust and the Priest saying some Prayers he past over the night most quietly and was perfectly freed Chap. 12. In the same Monastry a little Boy had been long sick of an ague and was expecting his fit when one of the Brethern comming in said My Son I le tell thee how thou mayest be cured rise and go sit thee down at the Tombe of Oswald and be sure thou stirrest not thence till the howre be over in which thy fit useth to leave thee then I will come and bring thee forth The Boy did so and his Ague durst not presume to seize upon him at the Tombe of the Saint That this hapned thus a Brother who came from thence told me adding how at that very hower the youth was living in that Monastery who was thus cured by Miracle It is not to be wondred that the Prayers of that King now in Heaven may obtain much of God who having a Temporall Kingdome accustomed himself to continuall Prayer even died praying for as he was slain he prayed to God for the Soules of his Souldiers whereupon arose that old Proverbe God have mercy on their souls quoth Oswald when he dyed himself Chap. 13. The Reverend Bishop Acca used to tell how he heard Willebrord that holy Bishop of Frizeland report what had been done abroad by the wonderous Reliques of this Vertuous King A certain Scholler careless in his life being at the point of death with great remorse of his sins made a purpose if he recovered to amend saying If God of his mercy grant me to escape death I resolve to mend my life yet I know I have deserv'd no truce except by the help of such as have faithfully served God he of his mercy will pardon mee We have heard there hath been a King of wonderfull holiness called Oswald the Excellency of whose Faith and Vertue even after his death was well known by working frequent Miracles I beseech you speaking to the standers by if you have any of his Reliques bring me them It may be God will have mercy on me through his Merits to whom I made answer saith Willebrord I have of the tree whereupon his head was stuck after he was slain and if thou wilt beleeve assuredly God by the Merits of so worthy a Person may grant thee longer life Who answering he did believe I blest saith Willebrord some water casting into it a shiver of the said Oake giving it the sick man to drink and forthwith he recovered and reform'd his life and living long after declar'd to all men the favour of our Maker and the glory of his servant Chap. 14. Relates how Oswin was slain by Osway where afterward in satisfaction for the sin there was a Monastery built wherein daily Prayers were offered up to God for Redemption of both the Kings souls the Murderer and murdered It Relates also the admirable Vertue of King Oswin how Aidan the Bishop foretold his death and twelve days after died himself Chap. 15. Relates How God by many Miracles declared to the world how worthy a Man Aidan the Bishop was and how Vtta a Priest being sent into Kent to fetch Eansled King Edwins Daughter the Bishop at his setting forth blessing him gave him hallowed oile saying I know that at your taking ship you will have a Tempest But remember to cast into the sea this oile that I give you All which hapning as Aidan had foretold the Priest takeing the oile cast of it into the sea and immediately there ensued a Calme This I had saith Bede from the faithfull relation of Cinimond Priest of our Church who said he had it from Vtta himself to whom this hapned Chap. 16. Relates How by the Prayers of Aidan Bishop the fire which the Enemy had defigned to burne a Towne besieg'd returned upon themselves making them quit the siege Chap. 17. Relates How the Vertuous Bishop Aidan departed this life the 17th year of his Bishoprick Not long after a Church being dedicated to the honour of the most blessed Prince of the Apostles his bones were translated thither and placced on the right side of the Altar with much honor as he deserved When King Penda set fire on the Church that Post onely whereunto this holy Bishop leaned at his death could by no force of fire be consum'd The Miracle being known and spread abroad the Church was again built but the like hapned the second time