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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

Christe in his members than he was in tymes paste The aduersaries of Gods truth haue no delight nor pleasure in heauenly and spirituall thyngs but like bellie beastes only borne to consume the good frutes of the earth they desire and seke after nothyng but the thynges of this world that their sonnes as the Psalmographe sayth may grow vp as the younge plantes and that their doughters maye be as the polyshed corners of the temple that their garners maye be full and plenteous with all manner of store ▪ that their shepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in their stretes that their Oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay no leding into captiuitie and no complayning in their stretes If all thinges go well and prosperously with them then are they mery and diligently offer sacrifice to to their God the belly But if any aduersity come then knitte they the forehead and worke their malice vpon Gods word and the faithfull professours of the same The worde they call heresie erroure doctrine new and straunge seditious and cause of rebellion of all other plages wherwith the commō weale is afflicted The professoures of thys worde they blaspheme they ●aile vpon they curse with booke bell candle they excommunicate they apprehende they accuse they condemne they stocke they cheane they manacle ▪ they racke and in fine they most cruelly with sweard fyre and halter brynge them vnto an ende so farre is it of that these Epicures and bellygods do as they ought render thankes to God for his corporall benefites so richely poured vpon them and vpon other his creatures Now as touching the spiritual benefites and heauenly giftes of the minde as the knowledge of the holy scriptures the vnderstanding of the Lordes blessed will the preaching of the Gospel the true administration of the Sacramēts the abolishment of all false worshippings superstitions c. wherwith God in this our age hath most mercifully blessed vs ▪ far passing many other nations that be vnder the heauens as these wise wicked worldlinges knowledge not the benefits of the body nor yet are thanckfull to God for them so likewise are they altogether vnthanckfull for the gifts of the minde whiche do so far excel the other as gold surmoūteth coper or siluer tynne For lyke as Owles cā not abyde the golden and glysteryng beames of the Sunne nor the light of y e day so in lyke māner cā not these bellygods and Antichristes slaues suffer the glorious and pleasaunt light of Christes most glorious and pleasaunt Gospel They crye out with the wicked of whō the Prophet maketh mētion on thys manner Se not Loke not out right thynges for vs but speake fayre wordes vnto vs. Loke out erroures Get you out of this way Depart out of this pathe and turne the holy one of Israel frō vs. In the trifling traditiōs ▪ croked constitutions idle inuētiōs drousy dreames deuilish decrees false fables fond fantasies of mē is theyr whole delight as for the sincere pure religion of God that they vtterly neglect set at nought cōtēne despise And if for shame they seme to approue alowe any part therof yet they do so māgle it bring it in captiuitie to the traditiōs of mē that it looseth the sincere simplicitie simple sinceritie whiche it receaued of the holye Ghost Some of thē are not ashamed so to diminish the authoritie of Gods sacred scriptures that they affirme the word of God to be so far the worde of God as the Church doth allowe it meaning the pope his spiritual shauelinges as though God gaue vs in his holy Scriptures an vnperfecte doctrine and not sufficiently authorised of him without the consent of Antichrist of hys broode Is not this to set God to schole and to make him a Nouice So should it follow that the word of God is grounded on the Church not the Churche on the worde of God Is not this right Antichrist that should turne y e rootes of trees vpwarde Christ saith speaking of his Church My shepe heare my voyce Againe he that is of god heareth the wordes of god Itē Euery one that is of y e truth heareth my voice And the holy Apostle saith speaking to the faithfull congregation of God Ye are no straungers and forreyners but citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophetes Iesus Christe hymselfe beyng the head corner stone in whome what buyldyng soeuer is coupled together it groweth vnto an holye temple in the Lorde The worde of God is not buylte vpon men althoughe neuer so holye and perfect neyther receaueth it any authoritie of mā although of neuer so greate excellencie wysedome and power but such as are the congregation of God are built vpon the worde of God whatsoeuer authoritie they haue euerye one in their degree and office they haue it altogether of Gods worde without the whiche word there can be no Church for asmuch as there cā be no faith as the Apostle saith Faith cōmeth by hearing and hearing commeth by the worde of God so farre is it of that either pope or Cardinall or anye other person hath any power to geue authoritie to the worde of God whiche already is authorized by the most hygh and supreme power euen God himselfe Some obiect olde and aūcient customes affirming that this our religion as they terme it new and straunge dissēteth in order and vsage greatly from the manner heretofore practised in our temples I graunt neither can the sinceritie of Gods worde suffer and abyde such olde vnsauory croked customes as heretofore haue bene vsed in the popish Religion as the coniuring of salte water bread bowes flowers fire ashes cādles c. creping to the crosse worshipping of Images calling vpon dead Sainctes sensing of altares Idols praying in a straūge tong offering the missall sacrifice for the quicke and for the dead receauyng of the Sacrament vnder one kind with a thousand moe errours and heresies and other greuous abuses which of longe vsage and custome in tymes past haue bene exercised among vs taken for true Godlynesse But who knoweth not ▪ that custome ought to geue place to reason and truth for reason and truth exclude alwaye put out of place custome be it neuer so olde and auncient laudable and commendable Christ is the truth therfore ought we rather to followe the truth than the custome If thou lay to our charge custome sayth S. Gregorye Thou must marke what the Lorde saith I am saith he the way the truth and the life He sayd not I am the custome but I am the truth Custome without truth saith Saint Cyprian is nothing els thā an olde errour Therfore leauing the error let vs followe the truth When the truth is once come to light saith Saint Austen let custome geue place For who doubteth that

no misfortune came vpō vs. But since we left to burne incense and to do sacrifice to the Queene of heauen we haue had scarcenesse of all thinges and perished with the sweard and hunger Last of all when we womē did sacrifice and offered to the Queene of heauen Did we make her cakes poure vnto her drinke offerings without our husbandes willes And as the vnfaithfull ▪ Israelites in wildernesse grudged against God his ministers saying Wherfore hast thou brought vs out of Egypte for to die in the wildernesse For here is neither bread nor water our soule lotheth this light bread Oh who shall geue vs flesh to eate We remember the flesh that we did eate in Egipt for nought ▪ and the Cuccumbers and Melons Leekes Onions and Garleeke But now our soule is dryed away For we cā see nothing els ▪ saue Manna Would to god we had dyed by the hād of the Lord in the lād of Egipt when we sat by the fleshe pottes and when we did eate bread our bellies full c. These aduersaries of gods word yea Eathnishe Epicures and beastly bellygods consider not how in the tyme of Antichrist that is to say of the Deuill and the Pope when all darke ignorancie and ignoraunt darknesse reigned when Papistrie and false Religion only florished when supersticious hypocrites alone ruled and ruffled there was muche more scarcenesse penurie dearth of all things than is now in the blessed tyme of the glorious ltght of Christs most glorious gospell Rede we not that euen in this Realme of England as I may passe ouer with silence the stories of other nations so great penurie scarcenesse dearth of grayne was found that the Inhabitantes thereof were compelled to make them bread of Pease Beanes Tares Fitches Acornes Ferne rootes c Chaunced not the like thing almost in one of the yeres of Queene Maries reigne now of late Was the worde of God and the preaching therof cause of so great miseries But then was there hygh silence of Gods word neither was the trompet of Christes gospell freely blowen Was the want of Masse occasion of it Masses swarmed in euery corner and countrey with all other idle inuētions of Antichrist Whatsoeuer the deuill and the pope at any tyme brought to the Churche was in those dayes most diligently practised yet notwithstāding such so great miseries thē chaūced as in the time of the gospel y e like was neuer foūd Yea with the gospel al good things were geuē vnto vs and to this our Realme of our moste mercifull father whiche we also at this presēt most abundaūtly do enioye thorow the singular benefite of the Lorde oure God so that the aduersaries of Gods word haue no iust and worthy cause to cōplaine of the scarcenesse of thinges wherof is so great abundaunce and plenty in this our land that we haue not onely sufficient for the sustentation of our owne coūtreymen but also of many thousands of straungers ▪ whiche lykewise do inhabite thys oure Realme But this from the beginnyng hath bene the propertye alwayes of Sathan and of his ministers if any aduersitie chaunce to commō weale where gods word reigneth streight wayes the cause thereof is imputed and ascribed to the worde of God and to the Preaching of the same as we haue diuerse examples both in the holy Scriptures and also in the Ecclesiasticall writters Whē God plaged the world with great dearth and famyne for their Idolatrye and wickednesse of life so that it reygned not vpō the earth by the space of three yeares syx monethes was not the occasion therof laid to the Prophet Helias charge to hys Preachynge Were not these the wordes of kynge Achab to the aforesayd Prophete and preacher of Gods worde Arte not thou euen he that troubleth Israell But the Prophet answered said vnto him It is not I that haue troubled Israel but thou thy fathers house in that ye haue forsaken the commmaundementes of the Lord and haue followed Baal Was not heresie sedicion treason layde to Christes charge when none was so free frō thē none more pure either in doctrine or life yea none to be compared vnto him being in dede incomparable in all Godlynesse goodnesse and vertue We haue found this fellowe sayd his aduersaries to Pilate peruertyng the people and forbiddynge to paye tribute to Cesar. If he were not an euill doer we woulde not haue deliuered hym vnto thee He is giltie of death To y e galowes with him to the galowes with him Likewise when the byshops hye priestes were afrayde of the inuasions of the Romanes and of taking away their liuinges and promotions was not all the matter laied vpon Christ his doctrine Were not these their wordes What do we For thys man doth many miracles If we let hym scape thus all men will beleue on hym and the Romanes shall come take away both our roume and the people Perceaue ye not howe we preuaile nothyng Beholde all the whole worlde goeth after him Reade we not also that the Apostles of Christe were accused of like faultes that that may be found true which Christ said The seruaunt is not greater than his Lord nor the disciple is not aboue hys master It is ynough for the disciple that he be as his Master is and that the seruaunt be as his Lord is If they haue called the Lord of the house Belzebub howe much more shall they call them of his housholde so Was not all the hurly burly sedition commotion strife contention debate insurrection c. imputed vnto them and their doctrine Were not these the words of their aduersaries when they brought them before the Rulers and head officers These men trouble our citie seing they are Iewes and preach ordinaunces whiche are not lawfull for vs to receaue seing we are Romanes Did not Paules enemies thus report of him This is the man that teacheth all men euery where againste the people and the law and this place He hath also brought Grekes into the temple and hath polluted thys holy temple Was it not layde to Paules charge also that he made an vproure and ledde out into the wildernesse foure thousand men that were murtherers And as what so euer plage or mischiefe chaunced in the Apostles tyme was euer imputed to them and to their doctrine so likewise came it to passe with the holy fathers and other good Christiās that succeded them as we may see not only in histories but also in other writers as in s. Cipria ▪ Contra Demetrianum and in Tertulian in Apollogi tico aduersus gentes c. And therfore no maruell though that same wickednesse be shewed at this daye agaynste the worde of the Lord seing that Sathan is alwayes one and is no changelyng seing also that he is nowe of no lesse power and will to worke the same malice enuye and mischief against the Religion of