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A14341	An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley; De rerum inventoribus. English. Abridgments	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581. aut	1546 (1546)	STC 24656; ESTC S107600	129,908	356

effect emōg y e priestes of the Weste parties vntill the tyme of Gregory the seueth whiche was the yere of our lorde M.lxxiiii AND here Polydore protesteth that the syngle life of priestes dooeth more harme to the religion shame to the ordre and griefe to honest menne then their constrained chastite profiteth if thei wer restored to the libertie and chose it were no preiudice to the christen common wealth and honesty for the ordre In the beginnyng menne maried their sisters and kinswomen but Moses restrained theim of the Hebrues from the first and seconde degrees and Fabianus forbad the third and fourth whiche custome stādeth now in effect Theodorus did inhibite first that a manne might not mary that mayde to whō his father was a godfather It was confirmed firste by Gregory and after by Alexander the third that no man should mary his brothers wife lest it should bee thought to be a counterfet of the Hebrues Lamech was the first that euer had two wiues whose example many other ensued afterwarde The custome of purifiyng was taken of y e Hebrues but there is no daie or time appoincted for it Neuerthelesse for an honest order thei vse cōmonly not to be purified afore the moneth daie then with a few honest matrōs she cōmeth accompained to the church offereth a waxe taper the chrisome ❧ The .v. Chapiter ¶ Of the temples churcheyardes when the crosse was firste had in reuerence IN the old testement Moses sette vp a tabernacle curiously edified to God wherin supplicacion and intercessiō was made to hym for the sinnes of the people And in that he made the Arke of couenaūt in the whiche he put the twoo tables of stone conteignyng the lawe of the ten commaundementes Aarons rod and the potte of Manna After hym Salomō kyng of the Hebrues made at Hierusalē a temple of costly araie and sumptuously wrought I cannot to saie trueth perfectely tell where the firste churche of christen menne was buylded but by all coniecture it semeth that it was made of the Apostles either in Ethiopia where Matthewe preached or in lower Inde where Bartholomewe taughte or in Scythia where Andrewe shewed the worde of God Where thei doubtles either caused newe churches too bee edified or els transposed the idolles temples to serue the christen mennes vse abolishyng supersticion plantyng the true religiō of Christ Albeit it were not against reason to suppose there was a temple or hous of praier appoyncted by Iames at Hierusalē IN Rome the first that I reade of was cōsecrated by Pius bishoppe of Rome in the strete called Patricius at Nouatus bathes in honour of the virgin Prudentia at the requeste and suite of Praxedis her sister And after Calistus made a temple to the virgin Mari in a place beyōde Tyberis and instituted a churcheyarde in Appius strete and called it after his owne name notwithstandyng Abraham was the first that made any place of buriall in Hebron where he bought of Ephron an Hethite y e double caue for thre hundred sicles of siluer with the grounde aboute it and ther was Sara his wife and he himself buried NOHA buylded the firste alter and offered vpō it a burned sacrifice to the lord And Bonifacius the third caused that thei wer couered with linen clothes Constantinus when he had wonne the battaill against Maxentius by reason of a vision that he sawe of the crosse the daie of the battaill ordained that from thēce furth no manne should suffre death on the crosse And so in processe of tyme it was had in muche reuerēce and worship And Theodosius made a lawe that there should no Image of the crosse bee grauen in stone marble or in yearth lest men should tread on it Helene Constantines mother a verie vertuouse woman repaired too Hierusalem to seke the crosse of our lord where with greate laboure and diligence she found it and with it the other twoo whereon the theues were hanged but it was easy to perceiue Christe his crosse by the title whiche then did remain albeeit sore wasted and corrupted with antiquitee ¶ The .vi. Chapiter ¶ Of the auncient rite of sacrificyng feastfull daies dedicatyng temples the mistery of Fire holy Water CAIN and Abell the two sonnes of our first father Adam offered in sacrifice to GOD the firste fruites of their goodes Abell his oblacion was milke Cain his gyfte was corne Afterward whē the priesthode was ordained Aaron and his sonnes offered diuerse thynges with sundry ceremonies whiche be shewed at large in the boke of Leuiticus The Gētiles almoste all sacrificed to y e idols men or women after sundry rites as appeareth in the histories Gentile auctours And if it fortune that thei omitted any suche abhominable idolatry thei had greate punishment destrucciō of their fruite corrupcion of their waters infeccion of y e aire deth of catel greate droughtes womē had eiuill deliueraunce with many suche plages as Dionisius Hilicarnasseus witnesseth which the spirites of the aire procured to delude seduce men and confirme theim in their errour THE holy daies emong the Iewes were diuerse as the Sabboth daie the feaste of y e newe Moone the passeouer the feaste of swete breade Pentecost the feast of Tabernacles the dedicaciō daie whiche bee al shewed largely in the olde Testament The vsage of dedicating churches is of great antiquitie for Moses did sacrifice the tabernacle Salomon consecrated the temple that he buylded at Hierusalem And Esdras after when thei returned from the captiue of Babilō hallowed the temple newe again Of them we receiue our rite of hallowyng of churches albeit we haue mo ceremonies thē thei had FIRE was kepte continually on the alter by the priestes for without it and salte could no sacrifice bee duly made or ordinarely offred and we in oure Masses haue euer a taper of waxe burnyng And the emperoures of Rome had Fire bourne afore thē the Vestales had euer perpetual Fire in the tēple where thei serued Vesta THE spirites of y e aire that gaue doubtfull answeres to them that required any question of theim wer at the commyng of Christe all destroyed For what tyme he was caried into Egipte whiche is a countree full of supersticion and Idolatry all the Idoles of that region wer ouerthrowē fell to the ground at his commyng thither And in the tyme of Adriane the Emperoure bothe the wicked sacrifices wer abholished and also the oracles of Apollo at Delphos Iupiter Hammon in Egipte with like vanities wer subuerted bi the power of God through his sōne Iesus Christ HOLY water was ordaigned by Alexander the first to be consecrated to driue away spitites and was commaunded that it should bee kepte as well in churches as in priuate houses for thesame vse whereof are growen emong the commō people many supersticiouse erroures contrary to the woorde of

created by Moses to minister serue Aaron in al y e sacrifices to beare the arke and tabernacle the holy vessels and pitche the campe and were discharged of al extreme affayres Nexte them were chosen the ministers whiche dyd make redye the sacrifice as Calues Oxen shepe with suche other thynges at the cōmaundement of the Leuites these we may cal subdeacons Certeyne other were elected to light the tapers and lampes named accolytes The Sextyns or porters were appointed to kepe out all prophane and vnclene people And readers to preache and reade the law and prophetes on their sabboth daies There were moreouer chaunters syngers to syng the Psalmes in the temple whom Dauid and Asaph did institute Coniurars were ordeyned by Salomon to driue euil spirites out of men Al these offices went by succession neither was one promoted frō one to another Thus was the leuitical priesthod appointed whiche was but a signe shadowe of thinges to come that is Christ in whō resteth the perfection and cōplete fulfillyng of the lawe The .iiii. Chapiter ¶ Of our priesthod howe it is double what laiyng on of handes meaneth CHRIST Iesus our sauiour whiche was kyng priest after the order of Melchisedeche in the newe testament hath instituted among vs a priesthod to offre and do the functions of this newe law And it is of two kyndes or sortes The one is a spirituall priesthod to offre spiritual sacrifices in this kynde Christ offered and gaue vp him selfe a consummate oblacion for the sinnes of the whole world as Peter saieth Christ died ones for our synnes he beyng righteouse for vs vnrighteous that he might gyue vs vp to God mortified as touchyng the fleshe but liuyng in the spirite OF this priesthode bee all christen menne whiche after the example of Christe muste offer our praiers thankes gyuyng and oure bodies mortified wee bee all of the degree of this kyngly presthode as Peter and also Ihon in the Apocalipse dooe beare witnesse THE seconde priesthode is a ministery that Christe did ordain foloyng the ordre of the lawe that wee might haue our teachers to enstructe vs in the Gospell as the Iewes had their scholemasters in the lawe He did elect twelue bishoppes whom he called by a newe name Apostelles bicause thei wer appoincted to bee embassadoures into all partes of the worlde with the mightie woorde of his power the glad tidynges of his Gospell He assigned also .lxx. disciples to whō he gaue the charge and office of preachyng teachyng whiche in steade of Aarōs sonnes should be emong vs as inferior priestes and s●●oures of congregacions and of these beganne the ordre of our Priestes as our bishoppes had their originall of the Apostelles As for the Apostelles and disciples whiche wer ministers and disposers of the misteries of GOD had no other maner of consecratyng but onely the vocacion and eleccion of Christe into the office And so was Mathias chosen in the Actes into y e roume of Iudas so wer the seuen deacons chosen to minister too the poore people of the congregacion And Titus did chose in euery toune and citee of Crete priestes by the laiyng on of handes whiche was a maner of admission withoute any further ceremonies wherby authoritie was gyuen them ouer the congregacion and boldnes to execute ernestely his office with the assistence of the holy ghoste And therefore in the beginnyng of the churche when a bishoppe was consecrated there was vsed no other rites or amabges but onely the people to whō the eleccion of the bishop belonged should praie and after the senioures or priestes by laiyng on their hādes admitted hym too that degree Of these Peter was called chief and first bicause bothe of his auncientie and also for somuche as he was firste elected A bishoppes roume is not somuche an honour as it is an heuye burden not so muche a laude as a lode For his deutie is not onely to weare a mitre and crosear but also to watche ouer the flocke of the Lorde vigilantly to teache with the woorde diligently with example honestly and in all thynges too go afore theim vprightly and leade them in the waie of trueth that thei maie folowe the patron of his Godly lyuyng and there as it were in a myrroure beholde howe thei oughte too refourme and confourme their lyuyng And this office of the bishopricke deacons wer instituted by the scripture onely for priestes in y e primatiue churche bishops wer al one BVT the bishoppes of Rome folowyng the shaddowes of the olde abrogate lawe of the Hebrues haue ordained a swarme of diuerse other orders as porters or sextens reders exorcistes accollites subdeacōs deacons pristes bishoppes archebishoppes as a certain degree one aboue another wherby thei should assend to the highest dignitie Caius bishoppe Rome did begyn the orders firste yet some saie Iginius did ordayne those degrees long afore Caius tyme. And I graunte well that Iginius mighte bee the first diuiser of theim afterwarde Caius accōplished the worke brought it to a finall consūmacion THE office of a priest as Christe ordained it was too teache baptise and minister the Sacramente of the alter and thankes gyuyng bynd and lose and iudge of doctrynes Therefore lette theim take hede that admit suche too bee priestes as cannot perfourme the deutie of the ministery For many suppose if thei can mumble vp a paire of Matyns and saye Masse thei bee perfecte priestes The .v. Chapiter ¶ The maner of shauyng priestes crounes who maie no● be prieste what age he muste bee of THE common and generall badge of al Priestes is y e shauen croune wher by the Clergie is desseuered from the Layitee and bee putte in remembraunce by it how thei ought all together to relinquishe and dispise all carnall pleasure and worldely treasure and ensue after heauenly thynges whiche bee eternall This as Beda writeth grewe into a custome and was decreed by a constitucion to the entente that the thyng whiche was before approbrious might growe to honour and comelines For Peter what time he preached at Antioche was scorned and mocked bycause of his balde hedde or shauen croune and it was a contumeliouse thyng bothe emong the Romaynes and Lumbardes too bee shauen I thynke the originall cause of it did proceade of the ceremonies of the Nazarees which whē thei had liued lōg tyme as Iosephus telleth verie deuoutly thei shaued their heddes and sacrificed the heire in the fire too God whereby thei sygnified that thei did dedicate theim selfes wholy to liue in a Godly perfeccion Samuel was a Nazaree and Samson also I suppose that this rite of the Nazarees came oute of Egipte where the Priestes were customably shauen in token of sorowe and heuinesse for the deathe of their God Apis. And thei were also shauen daily bycause thei