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A69179	The agrement of the holye fathers, and doctors of the churche, vpon the cheifest articles of Christian religion as appeareth on the nexte syde folowinge, very necessary for all curates. Gathered together by Iohn Aungell preist, one of the Quenes maiesties chapleyns.	Angel, John, fl. 1555.	1555 (1555)	STC 634; ESTC S108528	64,083	232

a Christen man met hym and sawe hym al bloudye sayd to hym from whence comest thou thou hast slayne some man And he sayde nay And the Christen man sayd thou haste committed some homised for thou art all full of bloud and the Iewe beinge ashamed sayde O greate is the god of the Christen men and his faith is firme and approued in all thinges I haue smitten the ymage of Iesu Christ in the throte and as sone as I had striken him the bloud gusshed out of his throte And then the Iewe broughte the Christen man to the pitte there drew out the holy ymage And the wounde is yet sene to this daye And the Iewe became Christened and ledde an honeste lyfe In Hysto Tripert Abagarus kynge of the Edesones sent a paynter to paynt an ymage like to our Lorde the which when he could not do for the brightnes of his face shining our Lorde himself putting a cloth to his godly liuely face wiped of in the cloth his owne ymage so sent it to the kynge Abagarus Euseb Lib. i. cap. xv This history sheweth plainly the ymages do pleafe Christe and not to be displeased with them as heretikes woulde haue it ¶ Of the signe of the crosse At Alexandria euerye man had the signe of the crosse paynted vpon their postes and in the entringe to of their houses and pillers Eccles hyst lib. xi ca. xxix Iulyanus thapostita blessinge him selfe with the signe of the crosse draue away the deuill thoughe it were against his will Eccl. hyst lib. vi cap. ix The secretes of the christians hath a certaine worthye reuerente token the whiche token or signe they name the crosse by the imagination of the crosse it self that which both in dede we affyrme most worthy of honour and also we worship it for the remembraunce of hym that was crucified theron Aug. de uisitatione infirmorum lib. ii cap. iii. The crosse is geuen to vs vpon our head and that it is a shielde a buckeler and a cote of armoure against the deuyl There this signe must be worshipped of vs geuinge the honour and reuerence to god They that do worship rhis figure of the crosse let them be o Lorde partakers of Christ crucified Damasene lib. iiii cap. xxii By the signe of the Crosse all wichcraft or sorcery and the act or craft of poysoning is put away yf it be done in faith and deuotion Athanasius lib. de incar uer It is redde in the Hystoria Scolastica that the paynims had paynted on a wall the armes of one Serapis And Theodosien the Emperoure dyd put out the sayde armes and paynted in the same place the signe of the crosse And when the paynyms of the priestes of the ydolles sawe the signe of the crosse painted there anone they became christened saying that they learned of their elders that those armes should stand vntyll suche a signe were set there where in shal be saluation S. Chrisostome sayth that the crosse and the woundes of Christ shall geue more lyght at the daye of iudgement then the sonne The deuils seinge Moses lawe feared not nor trembled not because it hath not wrought mans health but seynge the crosse whiche Christe dyed vppon they ofte quake flee and vanyshe awaye Of the whiche it fyrste came that meate drinke and all other thinges are blessed with the signe of the crosse Athanas xxiviii quest When in Ierusalem the Iewes were almost all slayne with a roūd thinge of fyre lyke a boule and the rest for feare of death were enforced and constrayned to confesse Christ Iesu to be God leaste that thinge should haue ben thoughte to haue happened by chaunce the nighte folowinge the signe of the crosse dyd so euidently appeare in all their garments that he which for his vnfaithfulnes would haue taken it awaye coulde not in no wise Therefore let men beware thou do dispise the picture of the crosse or the crucifixes of Christ lest lyke vengeaunce of God do light vpon them Tripert history The good godly emperoure Constantine when he was turned to christes faith hard much preaching of the crosse when he was in warfare he commaunded cunning men to chaūge his baner that he had into a baner of the crosse made of gold and precious stones For chis signe of warre was among others more precious or estemed better because it wente before the emperoure and the custome was of the souldiers to worshippe it Hysto Tri pert lib. i. cap. v. The emperour Constantine after many diuers notable victories optayned of his enemies accustoming his souldiers to honoure God as he did him selfe he made their armoure to haue the signe of the crosse he did most honoure the holy crosse as the Historye sayth both for the good lucke whiche he had in warre by the helpe of it and for the signe whiche God shewed therby Trip. Hysto lib. i. cap. ix Whan this emperoure Cōstantine was in great care thought ▪ how he should optayne victory againste his ennemies he sawe in a dreame the figure of the crosse brightly appearing in the firmament the aungels standing by hym wōdering at the signe saying O Constantine in hoc uince That is to saye O Constantyne thou shalt ouercome thy enemies by this signe of the crosse Sozomenus writ this aboue .xii c. yeares agoo And it is also saith the story Treportide that Christe apeared vnto him and shewed him a signe of the crosse commaunding him to make a lyke figure sayinge that shal be thy helpe in battell wherby thou shalt get the victorye ¶ Of the counsels auctorities of the fathers TRuly I would not beleue the gospell o●les the auctorities of the churche had moued me ther vnto vnto whom I haue ben obedient sayinge beleue the gospell Wherfore should I not beleue the church saying beleue not the Maniches Aug. contra epistolam Manichei quā fundamenti uocant cap. v. Now in myne olde age I wyll kepe the faith that I was broughte vp withall Hyeronimus ad occanum et pammacheum It is my parte to reade the olde fathers and singularlye to holde and alow al thinges that be good and not to degresse from the fayth of the catholyke churche D. Hieronimus ad Mineruum We ought to learne the knowlege of the scriptures of hym whiche hath kept it from our auncient fathers after the truthe geuen vnto hym And he maye affirme cōpetently those thinges whiche he hath rightfully receaued Clemens episto iiii ad ecclesi ●hierosoli S. Clement Paules companiō in preaching the golpell affirme●h that s Peter thapostel did teache that mē ought to obey the bishops commaundementes in all lawfull thinges thoughe they dyd otherwise lyue hearing in remembraūce our Lordes precepte sayinge Do ye the thinges whiche they say or bydde you do but do you not as they do for they saye and do not Also he sayeth oure hartes and bodyes muste be prepared vnto the holye obedyence of Goddes commaundementes and hys bysshoppes and