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A07396 The history of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman. Translated out of Latin in to English by Thomas Stapleton student in diuinite; Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598. 1565 (1565) STC 1778; ESTC S101386 298,679 427

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the byshop the possession of the land of CCC tenementes Whiche portion the Bishop gaue and committed to one of his clerkes named Bernwini his sisters sonne and appointed there to a priest named Hildila to minister the worde and baptisme of lyfe to all that would be saued And here I thinke it not to be passed ouer in silence that for the first frutes of them that were saued throwgh beleuing in the same I le two children of the blood royall being bretherne to Aruald king of the Iland were crouned with a speciall grace of God For when the ennemies came on the Iland they ●led and scaped to the next prouince of the Vites And there they gat to a place called Stonestat hoping to hyde themselues from the face and sighte of the king that had conquered their countree but they were betrayed and fownd owt and commaunded to be put to death Which thing when a certaine abbat and priest named Cimberth had heard of whose monasterie was not far from thence at a place called Redford he came to the king which was than in the same parties lying secretly to be cured of his woundes that he had taken fighting in the I le of Wighte and desired of him that if he would nedes haue the childerne put to death yet they might first receaue the sacramentes of the Christian fayth The kinge graunted his request and than he tooke them and catechised them in the right faith of Christe and wasshing them withe the holesome fonte of baptisme made them sure and in perfyt hope to enter into the kingdome euerlasting Anon after came the hangeman to put them to death which death of this world they ioyfully toke by the which they douted not but they should passe to the eternall life of the soule When after this order all the prouince of great Britaine had receaued the faythe of Christe the I le of Wight receaued the same also in whiche notwitstanding bicause of the miserie and state of forayne subiection no man tooke the degree of the ministerie and place of a bysshopp before Daniel who nowe is bysshopp of the west Saxons and of the Geuisses The situation of this I le is ouer against the middes of the South Saxons and Geuisses the sea comming betwene of the breadth of three myles which sea is called Solent in which two armes of the Ocean sea that breake out from the maine north sea about Britanie do dayly mete and violently ronne together beyond the mouth of the riuer Homelea which ronneth along by the countree off the Vites that belong to the prouince of the Genisses and so entreth into the foresaid sea And after this meting and striuing together of the two seas they goe backe and flowe againe into the Ocean from whence they came Of the Synode made at Hetdfield Theodore the Archebishop being there president The 17. Chap. AT this time Theodore hauing worde that the faith of the church at Cōstantinople was sore troubled through the heresie of Eutiches and wishing that the churches of the english nation ouer which he gouuerned might continew free and clere from such a spot gathered an assemble of Reuerend priestes and many doctours and enquired diligently of eche of them what faith they were of where he found one consent and agrement of them all in the catholique faith Which consent he procured to set forth and commende with letters sent from the whole Synode for the instruction and remembrance of the aftercommers the beginning of which letters was this In the name of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and in the raignes of our most good and vertuouse Lordes Ecgfride king of the Humbers the x. yere of his raigne the viij yere of the Indiction and the xvij day of September and Edilrede king of the Marshes in the vj. yeare of his raigne and Aldulphe king of the Estenglish in the xvij yere of his raigne and Lothar king of kent in the vij yeare of his raigne being there president and chief Theodore by the grace of God Archebishop of the I le of Britanie and of the citie of Caunterbury and with him sitting in assemblee the other bishops of the same land most Reuerend men and prelates hauing the holy ghospelles set before them at a place called in the Saxon tong Hedtfield after commoning and conference together had thereuppon we haue expounded and set fourth the right and true catholique faith in such sort as our Lorde Iesus being incarnate in this worlde deliuered it to his disciples which presently sawe and heard his wordes and doctrine and as the crede of the holy fathers hath leaft by tradition and generally as all holy men all generall Councells and all the whole company of the authentique doctours of the catholique churche haue taught and deliuered Whome we following in good dewe godly and rightbeleuing maner according to their doctrine inspired into them from God do professe and beleue and stedfastly do confesse with the holy fathers the Father and the Sonne and the holy ghoste most verily and in true and formall proprietie the Trinitie in the vnitie of one substance and the vnitie in Trinitye that is to saye one God in three persons of one substance and of equall glorie and honour And after many like thinges pertaining to the confession of the right faith the holy Synode dyd also adde to their letters these thinges folowing We haue receaued the fiue holy and generall Synodes of the blessed and derebeloued fathers of God that is to saye of CCC xviij which wer assēbled at Nice against the most wicked and blasphemous Arrius and his opinions And of Cl. at Constantinople against the madenesse and fond secte of Macedonius and Eudoxius and their opinions And at Ephesus the first time of CC. against the most wicked Nestorius and his opinions And at Chalcedō of CCxxx against Eutiches and Nestorius and their opinions And at Constantinople the second time where was assembled the fifte Councell in the time of the emperour Iustinian the yonger against Theodore and Theodorete and Ibe and their epistles and their opinions And a litle after against Cyrill Also we receaue and admit the Synode made at the citie of Rome in the time of the most holy and blessed Pope Martin the viij yere of the Indiction and the ix yere of the most godly and good Emperour Constantine And we worship and glorifie our Lorde Iesus Christ in such sort as these men haue done adding or diminishing nothing and we accurse with hart and mouth them whome these fathers haue accursed and whome they haue receaued we receaue glorifyeng God the father without beginning and his only begotten sonne begotten of the father before all ages and times and the holy ghost proceding of the father and the sonne in vnspeakeable wise according as these aboue mentioned holy Apostles and prohetes and doctours haue preached and taught And all we that with Theodore the Archebishop haue set forth and declared
waggene walke but lyke a stone set fast in one place so are they buylded vpp hauing no vnderstanding in the wordle but be dull with insensiblenes hitselfe and starcke deade Therfore we can not by any discretion and iugement finde owte vppon what blindnes and deceite of minde ye worshipp and obey those Godes to whome your owne selues haue geauen the image and representance of a bodie Yt behoueth you then to receiue nowe the signe of that holie crosse by which mankinde was redemed and execrating all dangerous deceites of the dyuell shake from your hart his subtiltie and guyle who euer maliceth and enuyeth at the workes of Godes goodnes Yt behoueth yowe also to set handes on these Godes which hetherto ye haue made your selfe of one metal or other Ye must I saye teare thē rent them and squasshe them to peeces For the verie dissoluing and breaking of them that neuer had lyue sprite or breathe in them nor could not by any meanes take of their makers sense and feeling the breaking I saye of them shall playnly shew yow that in deade it was nothing at all which yow haue hitherto so reuerently worshipped Wheras yow are your selfe far better then they be For yow haue receiued of our Lorde a lyue sprite and Almightie God hath browght yow althowgh by manie ages and diuers degrees and kindreds from the stocke of the first man Adam Whome God himselfe made and gaue life vnto Come yow therfore to the acknowleging of him that hath created yow that hath breathed into yow the sprite of life that for your redēption hath sent his only begotten sonne who should take yow owt of originall sinne and reward yow after with the ioyes of heauen being now delyuered from the diuels powre and malice Receiue ye therfore the wordes of the prechers and harken to the gospell of God whiche they shew yow that beleuing as we haue alredie sayde in God the father and Iesus Christ his sonne and in the holie Ghost that blessed and inseparable Trinite forsaking al honour and worshipp to diuels and expelling from yow the ernest entising of that poysoned and your most deceytfull enemie ye maye be borne againe by water and the holie ghost and by the only healpe and bountifulnes of God dwell with God in whome ye shall beleaue in all brightnes of euerlasting glorie And here we haue sent yow the blessing of S. Peter heade of thapostels and your good guide and gouernour that is a sherte laide with gold and a cloke of the finest sorte we haue from Ancyra Which we beseche your hyghnes to acept with so good a hart and will as ye vnderstande it is sent from vs. How this Pope exhorted the Quene also that she shuld diligently and ernestly seeke for the kinges saluation The. 11. Chap. THis bishop sent also letters to the Quene And the transcript of that epistle which this holie and Apostolike Pope Boniface directed from Rome to Quene Edelburge wyfe to kinge Edwyne was suche To the most high and veriuous Princesse Quene Edelburge his dere daughter bishop Boniface seruant to thē that serue God The boūtifulnes of our redemer by his greate prouidence hath offred mankinde whome by the shedding of his owne pretiouse bloude he hath deliuered from the bonde and captiuite of the dyuel sundry waies and manie healpes by which they might be saued insinuating by diuers meanes into the mindes of gentiles the knowledge of his name that therby they might be Christened and acknowledge their creatour Which thinge that it hath ben by the gifte of God bestowed on your honour the mysticall regeneration of your purifying in baptisme doth plainly declare And truly our hart hath ioyfully reioysed for this greate benefite of our Lordes bountefulnes to yow who hath vouchesafed to enkendle a sparke of right religiō in you being now cōuerted to him that therby he might after easely enflame with the loue and knowleadg of him self the harte and mindes not only of your most renomed and dere husbād but also of al your subiectes For we haue lerned by thē which came to declare vnto vs the laudable conuersion of our most gratious and wel beloued son kinge Audubald that your honour also after ye had receiued the wōderful sacramēt and veryte of Christiā faith do shyne and excel in good workes and such as be euer pleasaūt in the sight of God Therfore let your highnes refraine alwaies and diligētly kepe you self from worshipping of idols frō thalluremēte of tēples and from fond south saynges And so persisting with a sure and vnchāgeable deuotiō in the loue of your redemer watch ye and labour neuer ceassing to bestow your paines cōtinually to thēcrease and enlarging of Christiā faith For when as for our fatherly charite we had enquired sumwhat of the state of youre derely beloued husband we vnderstoode that he serued and obeyed so far furth to the abomination of idolatrie that he wold not yet shewe anie obedience or geue eare to the voice and counsell of Gods preachers which newes was vnto vs no small griefe that a parte of your owne bodie shulde remaine in this sorte alienated from knowledge of the highest and the inseparable holy Trinite wherefore as becometh a father to doe we haue differred no lenger to send vnto you our daughter in Christe Iesu our good counsell and frendfull warninge Exhorting you that whereas ye are now your selfe endued with Gods grace and diuine inspiration ye differ not henceforth to be instant at all times warning him in season or out of season and still calling on him vntill he also by the healping hand of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christe may be coupled with you in the number of Christians that you may so much the better and with a surer bond of societe accōpany him and hold the lawes and rightes of wedlock with him For it is writē They shal be ij in one fleshe and how can it be sayd that there is vnite of coniunction betwene yowe yf your husband by the darknes of detestable errour shall abide still alienated from the brightnes of your faith Ceasse not therfore to aske with continuall prayer of the greate mercie and longe suffringe of our Lorde the benefite of his illumining and conuersion that whom the knotte of carnall affection hath made now as one bodie those also the vnitie of faith may preserue in perpetuall societe after their dedeparture out of this life Be you then instant most vertuous daughter and with endeuour hasten spedely to mollefie the hardnes of his harte with godly remembraunces and diuine precepts Shew him plainly how excellēt a misterie it is that you by beleuing haue your self obtained And how meruailous a rewarde you shall haue hereafter bicause yow are nowe regenerat by baptisme Enflame his colde stony harte with ofte expressing the manyfolde graces of the holy ghost That he settinge a side by suche often exhortations this bodely and earthly worshipping of Idols the heate