A
DISPVTATION
against
the
worshipping
of
the
Reliques
of
Saincts
departed
.
OF
all
the
Idolatries
in
the
world
,
there
is
none
more
displeasing
to
God
,
nor
more
hurtfull
to
a
superstitious
man
,
then
that
which
he
committeth
by
the
religious
worshipping
of
the
bones
and
reliques
of
the
dead
.
For
,
if
God
would
never
suffer
,
that
we
should
worship
his
living
creatures
,
created
after
his
owne
image
&
likenesse
;
noe
not
his
Angels
themselves
,
which
are
pure
and
immortall
,
and
haue
noe
participation
with
our
humane
corruption
:
how
much
lesse
wil
he
permit
vs
to
attribute
that
honour
due
vnto
his
onely
Maiesty
,
to
the
bones
&
garments
of
rotten
bodies
returned
into
ashes
?
Moreover
if
the
worshippers
of
the
false
Gods
haue
estranged
themselves
from
our
Creator
,
Now
whereas
the
Canons
of
Awcon
in
Germanie
,
haue
not
long
since
put
forth
an
index
of
their
relickes
,
with
a
Iesu-iticall
Epistel
stuffed
with
false
gloses
and
sophisticall
reasons
,
to
stirt-vp
thereby
the
poore
abused
people
of
this
age
vnto
the
visitation
of
their
said
reliques
,
and
to
change
at
an
instant
,
their
natural
stupiditie
into
a
self-obstinacie
,
by
preferring
the
deceitful
shewes
of
religion
,
before
he
service
which
God
prescribs
vs
in
his
holy
word
.
So
I
desiring
to
accomplish
the
earnest
request
of
some
of
my
freindes
,
and
also
my
vocation
which
bindes
mee
to
pre-advertise
the
ignorant
to
take
heed
of
these
blind-leaders
,
which
leads
them
vnto
perdition
,
haue
spent
some
houres
in
composing
of
this
Treatise
,
that
may
serue
as
a
preseruative
to
the
weake
,
against
the
venomous
errours
eontained
in
the
saide
writing
,
as
a
morning-watch
to
awaken
&
rouse
vp
the
sluggish
,
as
a
Guide
to
such
as
are
gone
astray
out
of
the
path
of
truth
,
and
as
a
spurre
to
the
dull
to
convert
them
to
God
,
&
to
divert
them
from
the
pernicious
adoration
of
things
dead
&
corruptible
,
vnto
the
wholsome
worship
of
our
heauenly
Father
the
onely
God
living
&
incorruptible
,
who
is
a
spirit
,
and
loues
such
as
worship
him
in
spirit
&
truth
.
Whereunto
I
will
indevour
to
bring
them
by
three
degrees
.
First
,
Afterward
,
I
will
refute
the
arguments
of
the
Canons
of
Awcon
,
whereby
they
seeke
to
prooue
the
contrarie
.
Finally
,
I
will
advertise
the
Reader
of
the
falsities
of
those
reliques
specified
in
their
index
.
I
will
confirme
this
my
proposition
(
that
Christians
are
not
permitted
to
doe
any
religious
service
to
the
reliques
of
the
dead
)
by
three
reasons
:
whereof
the
first
shall
be
,
that
the
tradition
of
visiting
and
reuerencing
religiously
the
reliques
of
the
departed
Saints
,
hath
no
foundation
in
the
holy
Scripturs
,
nor
from
the
example
of
those
which
haue
followed
invariably
their
paterne
.
The
second
,
how
some
Christians
inconstant
in
their
waies
,
hauing
learned
this
superstitious
ceremony
in
the
Schoole
of
the
Gentiles
,
haue
brought
it
into
the
Primitiue
Church
about
foure
hundred
yeeres
after
Christ
.
The
third
,
that
the
consideration
of
the
sundry
abuses
,
sprung
from
this
wicked
custome
,
nourished
and
maintayned
yet
vnto
this
present
in
the
Idolaters
Synagogue
,
ought
to
mooue
and
stirre
vp
the
true
worshippers
of
God
,
wholly
to
banish
it
from
out
of
the
christian
Church
.
Touching
the
first
poynt
of
my
admonition
,
surely
we
finde
in
the
Byble
,
Thou
art
dust
,
&
to
dust
shalt
thou
returne
;
but
we
read
not
in
any
place
of
it
,
that
they
haue
torne
their
bodies
,
and
transported
them
by
peece-meal
after
their
deceasse
:
placed
their
bones
in
sundrie
places
,
showne
their
garments
to
the
vulgar
people
with
command
to
worship
them
,
and
promisse
that
in
calling
vpon
them
they
should
be
heard
,
Neither
reade
wee
also
in
it
,
that
God
hath
commanded
vs
by
his
auncient
prophets
,
to
goe
on
pilgrimage
to
those
parts
where
their
inheritours
had
carried
them
,
to
offer
vp
there
vnto
them
burning
tapers
and
holy
candles
,
to
touch
,
salute
&
kisse
their
bones
with
great
devotion
:
Much
lesse
reade
we
in
it
,
that
God
hath
prescribed
them
to
solēnize
the
memorie
of
their
reliques
by
certain
convocations
of
the
people
&
publications
of
solemne
fests
,
nor
yet
to
load
the
Churches
&
Altars
with
them
,
nor
to
carry
them
vppon
their
necks
&
shoulders
,
nor
to
walke
vp
&
downe
with
them
in
processions
;
to
the
intent
to
moue
every
one
to
reverence
them
,
with
confidence
to
obtaine
succour
from
God
and
his
Saincts
by
worshipping
them
.
And
albeit
that
the
Patriarke
Iacob
,
and
Ioseph
his
son
,
grounding
them-selues
vpon
the
truth
of
Gods
promisse
,
that
he
would
giue
for
an
inheritance
to
their
posterity
the
land
of
Canaan
,
enioyned
their
children
to
transport
them
forth
of
Egypt
,
when
the
houre
of
their
deliuerance
should
come
into
the
contrey
which
God
had
promissed
them
:
and
that
Moses
tooke
their
bones
alonge
with
him
when
the
children
of
Israel
came
forth
of
Egipt
:
notwithstanding
he
never
shewed
them
vnto
the
people
of
God
in
his
greatest
distresses
,
either
in
his
passage
through
the
redd
sea
,
or
in
the
wildernesse
:
much
lesse
did
he
lift
them
vp
into
the
ayre
,
and
sett
them
vppon
a
Perch
(
as
he
did
the
brasen
serpent
)
or
ordayned
that
any
should
behold
them
,
with
sted
fast
assurance
that
every
of
them
should
bee
delivered
from
their
euils
by
contemplating
them
:
but
contrary
wise
he
kept
them
secret
,
&
close
in
their
coffins
:
and
the
Elders
of
the
people
that
surviued
Moses
and
Ioshua
,
caused
them
to
be
buried
so
soone
as
they
arrived
in
the
land
of
Canaan
,
Also
the
Prophet
Samuel
sheweth
vs
,
Likewise
,
What
title
is
that
which
I
see
?
&
hauing
vnderstod
by
their
answer
,
that
it
was
the
sepulchre
of
the
man
of
God
,
which
before
prophesied
the
things
which
the
sayde
King
came
then
to
doe
vpon
that
very
Altar
,
to
shewe
the
publick
reverence
he
bore
vnto
that
man
of
God
even
after
his
buriall
,
bad
the
inhabitants
of
Bethel
Let
him
alone
,
let
none
remoue
his
bones
,
whereto
this
Historian
addeth
,
that
the
citizens
of
the
said
city
obeied
therein
king
Iosiahs
commandement
.
Although
the
holy
Scriptures
giues
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
among
all
that
are
borne
of
woemen
,
God
hath
not
raised
vp
more
excellent
servants
of
his
house
,
then
Moses
and
Iohn
Baptist
:
nor
a
more
faithfull
Martyr
of
his
son
Christ
Iesus
then
S.
Stephen
,
one
of
the
seaven
deacons
of
the
Apostolique
Church
,
&
one
of
the
first
witnesses
of
Christ
persecuted
in
Ierusalem
:
Neueverthelesse
their
bodies
were
presently
interred
after
their
departure
,
that
of
Moses
by
God
himself
after
a
miraculous
manner
,
Iohn
Baptists
by
his
disciples
,
and
S.
Stephens
by
some
men
that
feared
God
,
Among
all
the
auncient
Prophets
,
there
is
none
whose
buriall
is
more
memorable
then
that
of
the
Prophet
Elishas
;
in
regard
it
pleased
God
to
raise
vp
miraculously
by
touching
of
his
dead
and
buryed
bodie
:
a
man
which
in
great
hast
for
feare
of
their
enemies
they
had
cast
into
the
grave
of
this
prophet
,
as
we
read
in
the
second
booke
of
Kings
&
2.
Chap
,
howbeit
the
Authour
of
this
historie
addeth
not
for
all
that
,
that
the
Priests
of
the
old
Testament
,
haue
commanded
the
people
of
God
to
resort
vnto
that
tombe
,
to
offer
vp
their
praiers
and
sacrifices
,
or
that
they
instituted
any
Feasts
vpon
certain
daies
in
memorie
of
this
miracle
,
or
enclosed
the
bones
of
this
Prophet
into
a
shrine
,
or
chose
out
any
expresse
place
to
raise
vp
some
altar
in
his
honour
,
or
did
perswade
any
to
resort
thither
from
all
partes
,
to
offer
vp
there
their
praiers
and
sacrifices
in
the
name
of
the
vulgar
people
,
as
if
it
were
before
the
face
of
God
himself
.
Morover
the
prophet
Isaiah
,
hauing
respect
vnto
the
auncient
custome
of
interring
the
dead
,
and
hiding
them
in
their
graues
,
compareth
the
sepulchres
of
the
righteous
vnto
bedds
,
to
shew
by
this
similitude
,
that
wee
can
doe
noe
greater
pleasure
to
God
,
nor
a
greater
honour
to
his
wel-beloved
Sainctes
after
their
departure
,
then
to
wrap
vp
their
bodies
in
the
beddes
of
the
Earth
,
to
rest
there
from
their
labours
vntil
the
day
of
their
resurrection
,
in
which
Christ
wil
come
to
awaken
&
call
them
vnto
him
,
&
bring
them
into
the
possession
of
life
eternall
.
I
say
moreover
,
that
the
greatest
hypocrits
among
the
last
Doctors
of
Israel
,
to
wit
,
the
Scribes
and
Pharises
,
who
through
hypocrisie
and
vaine
glorie
buylt
vp
the
sepulchres
of
the
prophets
,
and
repaired
the
tombles
of
the
righteous
,
stoned
&
massacred
to
death
by
their
auncestors
did
not
deterre
their
corpses
to
dismember
them
,
and
shew
their
bones
vnto
the
meaner
sort
of
people
,
or
to
adorne
the
Altars
of
the
Tempel
of
Ierusalem
with
them
,
but
suffered
them
to
rest
in
their
graues
,
as
Christ
himself
witnesseth
in
the
23.
Chap.
of
S.
Mathews
Gospel
,
the
27.
verse
and
the
next
following
.
Touching
the
Apostles
&
disciples
of
our
Saviour
Christ
,
the
historie
of
his
burial
shews
vs
,
that
S.
Peter
&
S.
Iohn
approching
neere
vnto
his
sepulchre
,
to
see
whether
he
was
truly
risen
or
noe
,
found
there
his
kerchief
with
his
linen
clothes
laied
aside
,
but
the
Euangelist
S.
Iohn
noteth
more
expresly
,
that
they
came
thither
one
after
another
,
to
behold
the
more
earnestly
his
hand-kerchief
and
linnen
which
he
had
left
behinde
him
after
his
resurrection
,
addeth
not
(
which
neverthelesse
would
have
ben
soo
much
the
more
remarkeable
)
that
they
either
handled
than
,
or
bore
awaie
those
reliques
with
them
,
to
shewe
them
vnto
their
con-disciples
,
or
put
them
into
any
shrine
or
boxe
,
which
with
out
all
doubt
they
would
haue
done
,
if
they
had
receued
any
such
charg
from
ther
Mr.
or
if
they
could
haue
gathered
by
any
of
his
familliar
speeches
he
had
with
them
before
,
that
such
a
collection
&
transportation
of
his
reliques
would
haue
pleased
him
after
his
resurrection
,
&
haue
ben
as
a
fitt
meanes
,
to
confirme
their
bretheren
in
the
Christian
faith
.
As
for
S.
Luke
who
discribs
vnto
vs
all
the
memorable
acts
of
the
Apostles
,
since
the
assention
of
Christ
,
vntil
the
second
yeere
of
S.
Pauls
imprisonment
at
Rome
,
to
the
intent
they
might
serue
as
a
miror
and
exsample
to
all
our
actions
,
he
makes
no
recitall
,
nor
reckons
vp
in
his
second
booke
any
of
Christs
reliques
,
his
Parents
or
faithful
Martyrs
,
collected
by
his
Apostles
,
or
giuen
into
the
custody
of
their
frends
:
but
hee
shewes
that
the
christians
of
his
time
perseuered
with
the
Apostles
in
the
sincere
doctrine
of
the
H.
Gospell
,
and
in
breaking
of
bread
,
the
true
reliquaries
and
memorialls
of
the
instructions
&
In
like
manner
the
Apostle
S.
Peter
while
he
was
living
,
would
not
promisse
the
faithfull
dispersed
throughout
Pontus
,
Galatia
,
Capadocia
,
Asia
,
and
Bithynia
,
to
leave
after
his
death
any
other
reliques
behinde
him
,
than
his
Epistles
which
he
wrote
vnto
them
,
as
him self
declareth
by
these
wordes
,
that
he
wold
endevour
alwaies
(
to
wit
,
that
they
also
might
bee
able
to
haue
rememberance
of
those
things
after
his
departure
.
I
could
here
alleadg
for
this
purpose
many
excellent
admonitions
,
and
notable
examples
of
the
auncient
Fathers
,
and
true
successours
of
the
Apostles
:
by
which
they
shew
vs
,
that
they
vnderstood
right
well
,
that
the
last
degree
of
honour
,
and
charitable
office
which
survivours
are
bound
to
yeild
vnto
the
dead
,
according
to
the
rule
of
holy
Scripture
,
and
the
custome
of
the
chiefest
fathers
,
aswel
of
the
olde
,
as
of
the
niew
Testament
,
consisteth
in
burying
of
their
corpses
:
but
for
this
present
I
will
onely
recite
that
which
Origen
writeth
thereof
in
his
disputations
against
Celsus
,
S.
Augustin
in
his
firste
booke
of
the
Cittie
of
God
,
S.
Athan.
in
the
life
of
S.
Anthony
,
Eusebius
in
his
history
of
Policarpus
martyrdome
,
and
what
Prudentius
the
Poet
saith
thereof
in
his
verses
vpon
the
death
of
one
of
his
frendes
.
Humane
bodies
(
saith
Origen
)
hauing
once
ben
the
soules
mansion
,
According
to
which
S.
Augustine
saieth
,
that
we
ought
not
to
dishonour
and
reiect
the
bodies
of
the
departed
,
especially
those
of
the
faithfull
,
which
the
H.
Ghost
vsed
as
vessells
&
instruments
vnto
all
good
workes
.
For
if
our
affection
hath
ben
great
towards
our
Parents
,
the
more
pleasing
is
their
garment
or
ringe
vnto
posterity
,
their
corps
which
touch
vs
more
neerly
;
and
with
whom
wee
haue
more
familiarity
,
ought
in
noe
wise
to
bee
dispised
,
sith
they
serue
not
onely
for
an
aide
&
ornament
,
but
also
partly
vnto
humane
Nature
.
From
hence
it
proceedeth
that
through
a
seruiceable
piety
they
haue
heretofore
taken
care
for
the
buriall
of
the
righteous
,
solemnized
their
funeralls
,
and
prouided
for
their
interring
.
S.
Athanasius
reporteth
,
that
S.
Anthony
tould
his
frendes
a
while
before
his
death
,
Eusebius
hauing
in
his
historie
commended
the
zeale
of
the
Christians
of
his
time
,
which
with
the
daunger
of
their
lives
had
gathered
vp
the
most
precious
ashes
of
Policarpus
the
Martyr
,
to
bury
them
:
complaineth
afterward
of
the
Tyrants
of
that
age
,
which
commanded
their
hang-men
to
cast
the
bodies
of
those
holy
maryrs
to
their
ravēous
curres
,
appoynting
besides
certaine
guardes
to
restraine
&
keep
back
the
faithfull
from
taking
vp
the
torne
peeces
of
their
corpses
,
gnawne
by
the
dogges
,
and
from
laying
them
into
the
earth
.
Prudentius
comparing
the
Church-yeard
wherein
they
went
to
burie
one
of
his
frends
vnto
a
Mother
that
imbraceth
her
childe
,
Nunc
suscipe
,
terra
fovendum
Gremioque
hunc
suspice
molli
:
Hominis
tibi
membra
sequestro
Generosa
&
fragmina
credo
.
That
is
.
O
earth
receaue
&
wrappe
,
Within
thy
gentle
lappe
The
members
of
this
man
:
To
the
bequeath
I
than
,
And
to
thy
imbracements
Theis
generous
remnants
.
We
must
not
forgett
also
how
Bellarmin
himself
confesseth
,
The
first
benefit
that
befalleth
the
dead
from
their
buriall
.
is
,
that
we
haue
respect
vnto
their
honours
which
are
yet
living
in
the
memories
of
men
.
For
it
is
not
without
some
shame
that
the
foulenesse
of
our
bodies
should
stincke
before
the
sight
of
others
.
A
most
true
saying
where
by
this
Cardinall
condemneth
the
impudencie
of
theis
Porters
of
reliques
.
and
imitatours
of
Ham
,
who
vncouver
before
their
bretheren
the
nakednesse
and
shame
of
their
fathers
,
&
are
not
ashamed
in
some
places
to
shewe
the
navel
and
fore-skinne
of
our
blessed
Saviour
,
and
at
Rheimes
in
Campania
the
print
of
his
buttockes
.
True
it
is
,
that
in
those
daies
some
of
the
imitatours
of
the
Gentiles
,
begann
(
as
we
shall
vnderstand
hereafter
)
to
attribute
more
honour
vnto
the
Martyrs
than
in
times
past
,
and
to
solemnize
the
constancie
of
their
faith
and
other
christian
vertues
,
with
the
like
pompe
and
solemnity
,
as
the
Athenians
did
,
which
yeerely
assembled
about
the
graues
of
the
Grecians
to
call
there
to
minde
,
and
to
extoll
to
the
Heauens
the
valour
of
those
which
had
resisted
couragiously
the
army
of
Xerxes
,
and
who
for
the
good
of
their
contrey
had
lost
their
lives
in
the
battell
of
Marathon
.
Neverthelesse
,
their
principall
advocate
S.
Ierom
alleadgeth
for
their
excuse
,
that
the
ceremonies
which
they
did
about
the
tombes
of
the
Martyrs
,
was
neither
superstitious
nor
contrarie
to
that
onely
adoration
due
to
the
name
of
God
.
Who
is
he
(
saith
hee
in
his
dispute
against
Vigilantius
)
which
hath
ever
worshipped
the
Martyrs
?
who
ever
hath
thoguht
man
to
be
God
?
O
brainelesse
head
Paul
&
Barnabas
did
they
not
ren●
their
cloths
,
and
said
they
were
even
men
,
when
the
Lyconians
hold
them
for
Iupiter
and
Mercurius
,
and
would
have
offered
them
sacrifices
?
So
farre
is
it
them
,
that
the
Chistians
of
his
time
should
bee
so
debauched
,
as
to
transferre
the
worship
due
vnto
God
,
vnto
the
ashes
of
their
Martyrs
,
that
contrari-wise
he
denieth
,
that
they
did
not
once
thinke
to
worship
any
other
creature
,
which
he
preferreth
before
the
reliques
of
Saincts
,
by
this
manner
of
speech
following
.
We
neither
serue
nor
worship
,
I
say
not
onely
the
reliques
of
Saincts
,
but
also
the
Sonne
and
Moone
,
neither
Angels
nor
Archangels
,
neither
Cherubines
,
nor
Seraphins
,
nor
any
name
which
is
named
,
either
in
this
world
,
or
in
that
which
is
to
come
:
Least
we
should
rather
serue
the
creature
,
then
God
,
who
is
blessed
for
euermore
.
Now
we
honour
the
reliques
of
the
Martyrs
,
to
worship
him
whose
Martyrs
they
are
.
From
whence
it
appeareth
plainely
,
that
the
collection
and
religious
seruice
which
those
of
the
Papacie
doe
vnto
the
reliques
of
such
as
God
hath
with-drawne
long
since
out
of
this
world
,
being
not
grounded
vpon
any
commande
of
the
Lord
,
nor
from
the'
exsample
of
any
of
the
true
worshippers
of
his
diuine
Majesty
,
I
say
,
that
this
corruption
is
entred
into
the
Christian
Church
by
certaine
stepps
;
But
they
witnesse
in
noe
place
,
that
hee
commanded
his
Bishops
to
lock
them
vp
in
their
Church-Coffers
,
neither
to
transport
them
by
mamockes
into
diuerse
places
,
to
represent
them
vpon
feastiuall
daies
vnto
the
vulgar
sort
of
people
,
with
an
exhortation
that
they
should
salute
and
kisse
them
:
but
on
the
contrarie
enjoyned
his
subjects
to
burie
them
honorably
,
and
lay
them
in
the
Earth
.
Notwithstand●ng
the
Devill
taking
hold
and
making
vse
of
the
Carnal
wisedome
of
this
Emperour
turned
it
litle
by
litle
into
a
censurable
superstition
.
For
since
that
time
many
Christians
haue
suffred
them-selues
to
bee
carryed
away
through
there
in
considerate
Zeale
from
one
vanity
vnto
another
,
imagining
with
them-selues
,
that
the
bodies
of
the
faithfull
deserued
more
,
or
asmuch
seruice
after
their
departure
as
the
infidels
:
were
not
onely
contented
to
remoue
them
from
farr
and
remote
places
of
their
countreies
,
into
there
Church-yardes
,
wherein
they
ordinarily
assembled
in
those
days
to
watch
&
pray
,
and
to
doe
therein
some
others
rites
of
religion
,
because
then
they
had
no
Churches
.
And
euen
thus
sought
to
eternize
the
memorie
of
their
vertues
,
by
building
them
Sumptuous
tombes
,
&
solemnising
,
their
funeralls
with
too
excessiue
praises
.
To
shew
then
to
euery
man
,
that
Sathan
the
Athenians
Law
giver
and
other
Idolaters
,
instituted
this
Ceremonie
,
I
wil
onely
alledg
without
reciting
the
testimonies
of
other
Historians
,
what
Plutarke
writeth
thereof
in
his
discourse
vpon
the
interring
of
Theseus
and
Cimon
.
His
wordes
are
these
,
that
when
Cimon
byfore
of
armes
had
conquered
the
I
le
of
Scycros
,
bee
remembred
with
himself
,
that
the
auncient
Theseus
sonne
vnto
Ageus
,
flying
from
Athens
came
into
that
Ileland
,
where
Lycomedes
for
some
bad
suspition
hee
had
of
him
,
caused
him
to
be
slayne
by
tresaon
.
Now
by
all
meanes
hee
laboured
to
finde
out
his
graue
,
in
regard
the
Athenians
had
receaved
before
an
or
Oracle
or
prophesie
from
Apollo
(
or
to
speake
more
properly
from
the
Deuill
,
)
by
which
hee
commaunded
them
to
bring
backe
to
Athens
the
bones
and
ashes
of
Theseus
,
&
to
honour
him
as
a
Demy-God
:
but
hee
knew
not
where
they
had
enterred
him
,
because
the
inhabitants
of
that
I
le
kept
his
graue
secret
and
vnknowen
,
and
would
suffer
no
man
to
seeke
it
out
:
Howbeit
;
Cimon
vsing
all
expedition
to
search
it
out
,
espied
by
chance
an
Aegle
,
which
strook
the
ground
with
her
beake
and
talents
,
in
a
place
some
what
higher
then
the
rest
,
whereupon
it
came
into
his
minde
,
(
as
it
were
by
divine
inspiration
)
to
cause
that
place
to
be
digged
,
where
they
found
the
graue
of
some
great
corps
,
and
the
poynt
of
a
brasen
lance
with
a
sworde
.
In
such
sorte
,
that
hauing
at
last
found
the
tombe
,
he
tooke
forth
Theseus
bones
,
and
brought
them
into
the
Admirall-Galley
somptuously
adorned
,
and
transported
them
presently
into
his
Contrey
foure
hundred
yeeres
after
Thesius
had
departed
from
thence
.
For
this
seruice
the
people
receaued
him
with
great
ioy
and
he
gott
thereby
the
good
will
of
the
Athenians
,
which
receaved
theise
reliques
with
great
Applause
,
with
somptuous
sacrifices
,
&
processions
,
as
if
Thesius
himself
had
ben
liuing
,
and
had
returned
back
again
into
the
Citie
.
And
his
reliques
are
in
the
midst
of
the
Towne
,
yet
vnto
this
day
,
neere
vnto
the
Parcke
where
the
young
men
resort
together
for
the
excercising
of
their
bodies
,
&
where
is
freedom
both
for
slaues
and
all
poore
a●flicted
ones
.
More-ouer
,
the
Sepulchres
which
yet
vnto
this
day
are
called
Cimonia
testefie
that
Cimon●
bones
&
ashes
were
brought
back
againe
into
Attica
.
Notwithstanding
the
inhabitants
of
the
towne
of
Citium
honour
still
a
certaine
Tombe
which
they
affirme
should
be
Cimons
,
because
that
in
the
time
of
a
great
dearth
&
famine
they
had
an
oracle
(
that
is
an
answere
from
the
Deuill
)
which
commaunded
them
to
haue
a
care
vnto
Cimon
,
and
not
to
neglect
him
,
but
to
honour
and
reverence
him
as
a
God
,
as
Nancicrates
the
Orator
hath
recorded
it
in
writting
.
The
like
hee
saith
also
of
Demetrius
and
Phocyon
in
the
storie
of
their
death
whereunto
for
breuitie
sake
I
will
send
the
Reader
.
Now
al-be
it
that
the
Christians
&
members
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
were
borne
away
with
the
torrent
of
this
heathenish
custome
,
wherevnto
the
Emperour
Constantine
had
opened
the
sluces
,
passing
beyond
the
boundes
of
Christian
puretie
&
simplicity
:
yet
the
honour
which
they
did
about
the
graues
&
bons
of
their
Martyrs
,
was
in
noe
wise
comparable
,
nor
so
superstitious
as
that
was
of
the
Athenians
,
and
other
pagans
,
nor
like
to
that
which
at
this
day
is
committed
amongst
the
Idolaters
of
the
Romane
Church
.
For
let
vs
consider
what
S.
Augustine
saith
thereof
in
his
8.
booke
of
the
cittye
of
God
.
Wee
neither
(
saith
hee
)
build
Temples
,
nor
make
priesthood
nor
sacrifies
,
nor
any
other
diuine
seruice
,
as
a
religion
to
the
Martyrs
.
For
they
are
not
our
Gods
,
but
their
God
is
ours
.
Truth
it
is
,
that
wee
honour
their
memorie
,
as
the
holy
men
of
God
.
Which
haue
fought
valiantly
for
the
truth
euen
vnto
the
death
of
their
bodies
,
to
the
end
,
that
true
religion
might
bee
knowne
&
the
false
convicted
.
What
man
is
it
amonge
the
faithfull
that
ever
heard
a
preist
say
standing
before
an
Altar
,
built
vppon
the
corps
of
Some
Martyre
to
the
honour
and
seruice
of
God
,
Peter
,
Paul
or
Cyprian
I
offer
thee
Sacrifice
,
seing
that
in
memorie
of
them
wee
offer
vp
vnto
God
who
hath
made
them
both
men
and
martyrs
,
&
hath
conioyned
them
through
a
celestiall
glorie
vnto
his
angels
,
that
in
the
assembly
of
the
people
,
wee
might
giue
thankes
vnto
the
true
God
for
their
victories
,
and
by
the
remembrance
of
their
crownes
&
palmes
,
might
exhort
others
vnto
the
imitation
of
their
vertues
.
The
funeralls
then
which
the
religious
solemnize
by
the
monuments
of
the
Martyrs
,
are
noe
other-wise
then
ornaments
of
their
memorialls
,
&
noe
sacrifices
which
they
doe
offer
vnto
the
dead
as
vnto
Gods
.
These
are
S.
Augustins
wordes
,
by
which
hee
testifieth
,
that
notwith-standing
the
ouverture
,
which
the
Christians
of
his
time
made
vnto
this
paganish
superstition
,
in
solemnising
the
Martyrs
feastes
:
yet
true
pietie
&
the
right
invocation
of
the
name
of
God
bore
some
sway
and
aucthority
amonge
them
.
But
if
S.
August
.
and
his
fellow-souldiers
,
could
haue
ben
able
to
haue
prevented
the
euils
and
mischiefs
that
this
superstition
drew
after
her
taile
,
they
would
then
haue
redoubled
their
forces
and
fell
vppon
her
with
all
their
might
,
to
haue
hindred
her
from
winning
so
many
countryes
in
Christendome
.
So
then
it
is
my
duty
to
excuse
them
,
considering
they
opposed
themselfs
against
her
,
both
by
word
and
writing
.
To
begin
with
S.
Ambrose
,
S.
Augustin
giues
him
this
testimonie
,
As
for
S.
Augustin
himself
,
he
plainely
condemns
it
in
his
eight
booke
of
the
Citie
of
God
,
wherein
hee
doth
not
coulour
it
,
but
saies
that
such
as
brought
their
victualls
vnto
the
sepulchres
of
the
Martyrs
,
to
solemnize
there
their
feastes
,
were
not
of
the
better
sort
of
Christians
.
The
same
authour
returning
an
answere
vnto
the
reproch
which
the
Manicheans
made
against
him
,
to
wit
,
that
those
which
vaunt
themselues
so
much
at
the
name
of
Christians
,
worshipped
notwithstanding
the
Tombes
of
Martyrs
,
following
therein
the
exsample
of
the
Heathen
,
saith
(
Pick
mee
not
out
from
among
the
Christian
name
;
those
which
neither
know
,
nor
follow
the
vertue
of
their
profession
?
seeke
me
not
out
the
troupes
of
ignorant
men
which
are
superstitious
,
euen
in
the
true
religion
,
and
so
much
giuen
ouer
vnto
their
pleasures
,
that
they
haue
forgotten
what
they
promised
vnto
God
.
I
know
(
saith
hee
)
that
there
are
many
which
adore
the
monuments
&
pictures
.
&c.
and
among
so
great
a
multitude
of
people
it
is
no
wonder
.
Cease
then
I
pray
you
at
last
from
slandering
the
Catholique
Church
,
in
blaming
the
fashion
of
those
,
which
her self
condemneth
and
hath
evermore
sought
to
correct
as
wicked
childeren
.
Also
hee
complaineth
in
his
Epistle
hee
wrote
vnto
Ianuarius
.
That
they
had
overladen
mens
consciences
with
seruil
burdens
,
and
addeth
thereunto
,
that
the
condition
of
the
Iewes
was
more
tollerable
then
that
of
the
Christians
,
because
men
had
made
them
subject
onely
to
the
burdens
of
the
Lawe
:
but
Christians
vnto
humane
presumptions
,
that
is
,
according
to
the
opinions
taken
among
them-selues
,
obstinatly
to
maintaine
them
to
prejudice
the
truth
.
He
confesseth
likewise
therein
,
that
the
church
of
God
being
planted
amonge
much
chaffe
&
daernell
tolerated
many
things
which
neuer-the-lese
her self
did
neither
doc
,
approue
,
nor
conceale
.
Also
hee
plainely
signifies
in
that
Epistle
,
that
hee
could
not
allowe
of
diuerse
things
which
they
had
instituted
in
the
Church
of
God
,
ouer
and
besides
the
auncient
custome
of
the
fathers
,
of
the
old
Testament
,
as
if
it
were
the
observation
of
a
Sacrement
,
which
yet
not-with-standing
he
confesseth
,
on
th'
other
side
,
hee
durst
not
so
freely
reject
for
avoyding
the
scandall
of
some
persons
,
wherof
some
were
holy
and
others
seditious
,
where
vpon
hee
openeth
his
minde
more
clearely
by
the
distinction
which
hee
propoundes
against
Faustus
saying
,
One
thing
is
that
which
wee
support
,
another
that
which
wee
are
commaunded
to
teach
,
&
another
that
which
wee
are
commaunded
to
amend
;
and
constrayned
to
beare
with
,
vntill
wee
haue
amended
it
.
If
S.
Augustin
hauing
conceaued
some
hope
,
sought
to
cure
his
auditorie
of
this
contagious
maladie
,
rather
by
gentlenesse
then
by
seuerity
.
Not-with-standing
called
them
wicked
Children
,
superstitious
euen
in
the
true
religion
,
giuen
ouer
to
their
delights
,
forgetfull
of
that
which
they
had
promissed
to
God
,
and
finally
that
they
were
not
of
the
better
sort
of
Christians
,
would
hee
not
crie
out
with
greater
vehemencie
,
against
the
Idolaters
of
the
Romish
Church
,
who
scornefully
and
obstinately
,
refuse
the
fit
remedies
which
should
purge
them
of
their
bad
humours
,
being
laden
with
so
many
corruptions
almost
incurable
?
would
he
not
cry
out
louder
,
and
tell
them
that
they
are
not
of
the
better
sort
of
Christians
,
but
of
the
wickedest
?
would
hee
not
call
them
with
the
Prophet
Esaye
a
sinfull
nation
:
I
could
here
produce
many
other
testimonies
to
the
like
effect
,
were
not
these
sufficient
to
conuict
all
contradictours
,
and
to
shewe
the
ignorant
,
that
S.
Augustin
&
his
fellow
labourers
(
which
liued
foure
hundred
yeeres
after
Christ
)
perceiued
noe
sooner
the
bitter
fruit
of
this
dangerous
plant
,
which
Sathan
the
wicked
spirit
had
brought
from
the
Athenian
Schole
into
their
churches
,
but
they
laboured
with
all
their
power
to
root
it
vp
;
&
hew
downe
the
braunches
thereof
.
From
whence
necessarely
we
may
inferre
,
that
these
Canons
of
Awcon
,
which
anone
wee
will
refute
more
perticularly
,
bragg
of
the
antiquity
of
this
tradition
with
false
brauadoes
,
since
God
who
is
the
auncient
of
dayes
,
hath
never
taught
it
to
our
Fathers
,
in
the
first
dayes
of
his
grace
,
by
his
auncient
Prophets
,
nor
in
the
beginning
of
the
latter
by
his
Sonne
Christ
Iesus
and
his
Apostles
,
nor
for
some
hundred
yeeres
after
their
time
by
their
true
successours
:
but
on
the
contrarie
,
raised
vp
holy
and
faithfull
Doctors
to
resist
&
contradict
it
.
So
that
the
title
of
Heretiques
which
they
so
vsually
giue
vs
in
all
occurrences
,
may
by
a
good
consequence
be
returned
vpon
them
.
And
here-upon
I
entreat
the
vnpassionate
Reader
,
to
censure
whether
this
reproch
which
S.
Tertullian
made
heretofore
vnto
their
predecessours
,
who
alwaies
had
antiquety
in
their
mouths
and
noveltie
in
their
braines
,
may
not
justly
be
appropriated
to
them
.
Where
is
the
religion
?
where
is
the
reuerence
you
owe
vnto
your
ancestours
?
you
haue
renounced
the
custome
of
your
Graundsirs
in
education
,
in
apparell
,
in
sence
&
in
speech
it self
:
You
euermore
praise
anti
quity
&
liue
from
daie
to
daie
after
nouelty
,
wherby
it
is
euident
,
seing
that
of
your selues
you
forsake
the
good
institutions
of
your
predecessours
,
you
remember
&
keepe
the
things
which
you
ought
not
,
and
obserue
not
those
which
you
should
.
Now
resteth
the
lait
part
of
our
disputation
,
The
second
abuse
is
,
that
they
haue
transported
the
reliques
of
Saincts
into
diverse
places
,
and
admonished
everie
one
to
resort
thether
vpon
feastiuall
daies
dedicated
to
their
memory
,
and
so
they
intoxicate
the
simple
with
this
false
opinion
,
that
not
only
the
saints
but
God
himself
taketh
delight
in
such
pilgrimages
,
and
that
their
prayers
made
neere
to
the
theise
religious
reliques
,
are
sooner
heard
of
the
Saincts
,
&
of
God
himself
,
then
when
they
are
made
else
where
,
as
appeareth
by
the
decree
of
the
Councell
of
Trent
,
and
the
praiers
which
are
forged
by
the
Priests
of
the
Romane
Church
,
according
to
the
tenour
thereof
.
The
decree
of
the
Trent
Councell
is
this
.
The
holy
Counsel
enioyneth
all
Bishops
&
others
,
to
whom
the
charge
and
care
of
teaching
is
committed
,
that
(
according
to
the
vse
of
the
Catholique
and
Apostolique
Church
,
receiued
from
the
first
age
of
Christian
Religion
,
the
consent
of
holy
Fathers
,
and
the
decrees
of
sacred
Counsels
)
they
diligently
instruct
the
faithfull
in
the
Doctrine
of
the
interecssion
and
invocation
of
Saincts
,
in
honouring
their
reliques
,
and
in
the
Lawfull
vse
of
images
,
admonishing
them
touching
the
reliques
,
that
the
holy
Boddies
of
the
Martyrs
&
other
Saincts
living
with
Christ
,
who
while
they
liued
in
this
worlde
were
his
liuely
members
&
temples
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
whome
one
day
hee
will
raise
vp
and
glorifie
vnto
eternall
life
,
ought
to
be
reuerenced
by
the
faithfull
,
because
GOD
bestowes
many
benefits
one
men
through
those
reliques
.
So
that
those
which
maintaine
that
their
reliques
are
neither
to
be
reuerenced
,
nor
honoured
,
&
that
the
faithfull
reverence
them
,
and
other
holy
memorials
to
noe
end
.
More-ouer
that
they
in
vaine
frequent
the
places
,
wherein
such
reliques
are
,
to
obtaine
succour
from
the
Saincts
,
ought
expresly
to
be
comdemned
,
as
for
a
longe
time
the
Church
hath
condemned
them
,
and
condemns
them
yet
vnto
this
present
.
The
first
prayer
consormable
to
this
decree
made
by
their
Presbiters
is
this
.
Domine
,
nerespicias
piccatanostra
,
sed
respice
ad
deprecationem
genitricis
tuae
Mariae
,
&
perejus
sancta
merita
,
&
perintercessionem
sanctorum
tuorum
Apostolorum
Petri
&
Pauli
,
atque
omnium
Sanctorum
tuorum
,
quorum
reliquiae
sunt
in
isto
loco
,
adiuva
nos
,
sicut
tuvides
necessitatem
nostram
.
That
is
to
say
,
Behold
not
our
Sinns
ô
Lord
,
but
behold
the
Prayer
of
thy
mother
Marie
,
and
through
her
holy
Merits
,
and
through
the
mediation
of
thy
holy
Apostles
Peter
and
Paul
,
and
of
all
thy
Saincts
,
whose
reliques
are
in
this
place
,
help
vs
according
to
our
necessitie
.
The
second
is
.
Deus
,
qui
ex
omni
coaptatione
Sanctorum
aeternum
tibi
condis
habitaculum
,
da
aedificationi
tuae
incrementa
caelestia
,
vt
quorum
hic
reliquias
pio
amore
complectimur
,
eorum
semper
meritis
adiuvemur
.
That
is
to
say
.
O
God!
which
through
the
Sainets
that
thou
hast
appropriated
to
thy self
,
buildest
thee
an
everlasting
Tabernacle
,
giue
celestiall
augmentations
to
thy
building
,
that
alwaies
we
may
be
succoured
by
the
merrits
of
those
,
whose
reliques
wee
here
embrase
with
a
holy
affection
.
The
third
is
,
Propitiare
nobis
,
quaesumus
Domine
,
famulis
tuis
per
horum
sanctorum
tuorum
N.
&
N.
atque
aliorum
,
qui
in
praesentirequiescunt
Ecclesia
,
merita
gloriosa
,
vt
eorum
pia
intercessione
ab
omnibus
semper
protegamur
adversis
.
That
is
to
say
.
O
Lord
,
be
fauourable
vnto
vs
thy
servants
,
for
the
glorious
merits
of
these
Saincts
.
N.
&
N.
and
of
all
others
which
rest
here
in
this
Church
,
to
the
end
,
that
through
their
Godly
intercession
,
wee
may
evermore
bee
preserved
in
all
our
adversities
.
I
maintaine
that
this
opinion
is
false
,
that
God
heareth
soner
our
Prayers
neere
vnto
the
reliques
of
the
dead
,
then
else
where
;
because
it
is
grounded
on
principles
directly
contrarie
to
the
infallible
instructions
of
holy
Scripture
,
where
of
the
first
is
.
That
Christians
are
permitted
to
invocate
the
departed
Saincts
,
and
to
honour
religiously
their
reliques
.
The
second
,
that
the
deceased
Saincts
know
whatsoeuer
is
done
vnder
the
Sunne
,
and
consequently
vnderstand
the
Prayers
of
those
which
crie
vnto
them
in
this
world
.
The
third
,
that
the
Saincts
after
their
departure
,
should
regard
the
seruice
of
such
as
salute
,
kisse
,
and
honour
their
reliques
,
by
way
of
religion
.
Fourthly
,
that
God
hath
instituted
the
pilgrimages
which
they
obserue
in
the
Romane
Church
,
and
had
rather
be
worshipped
in
a
place
,
wherein
there
is
some
reliques
,
or
memorials
of
the
Saints
,
them
where
there
is
none
.
Now
inregard
they
haue
not
long
agoe
reimprinted
at
Sedan
my
refutation
against
the
invocation
of
Saincts
,
by
which
I
haue
represented
vnto
the
reader
the
falshoode
of
the
three
first
principles
,
I
will
send
the
Reader
vnto
it
.
But
for
the
latter
,
I
will
set
downe
before
him
,
that
which
S.
Gregorie
Nyssene
iudgeth
thereof
in
his
Epistle
against
the
pilgrims
,
that
went
to
Ierusalem
,
to
see
the
sepulchre
of
Christ
,
and
the
most
remarkeable
memoriall
of
our
Redeemer
.
When
the
Lord
(
saith
Gregorie
Nyssene
)
I
could
here
likewise
coppie
out
S.
Chrisost.
admonition
,
Chrysostomes
,
Augustins
,
Bernards
,
and
Gregories
.
The
third
abuse
is
,
that
through
the
visiting
of
these
reliques
,
the
hearts
of
superstitious
men
are
moued
,
to
transferre
that
worship
which
is
due
onely
vnto
the
liuing
and
incorruptible
God
,
to
dead
&
corruptible
things
.
For
as
in
the
time
of
S.
Ierom
S.
Christostom
,
&
S.
Augustin
,
the
Christians
were
adicted
vnto
this
ceremonie
,
of
going
to
visite
the
sepulchres
and
monuments
of
the
Martyrs
,
and
other
holy
men
,
and
to
solemnize
yeerely
certaine
solemne
feastes
in
memorie
of
them
.
So
ever
since
,
their
foolish
Imitatours
,
haue
buylt
Temples
&
Altars
in
honor
of
their
reliques
,
lighted
vp
Candles
about
them
,
and
haue
craued
succour
and
help
by
their
praiers
,
not
onely
of
God
himself
and
his
saincts
,
but
also
from
these
dead
an
insensible
things
,
which
neuer
had
any
communion
with
humane
life
,
neither
could
in
any
wise
vnderstand
them
,
nor
neuer
shal
be
capable
of
hauing
participation
in
the
knowledg
of
our
God
,
and
of
that
eternall
life
,
which
he
hath
promised
vnto
his
children
.
For
confirmation
whereof
,
I
wil
not
here
speake
of
the
Monkes
,
which
in
time
past
worshipped
the
arme
of
S.
Maurus
,
nor
of
some
other
Idolaters
which
praied
to
the
bones
of
their
Saincts
;
nor
of
those
which
adore
our
Sauiours
crosse
vnto
this
day
,
onely
for
the
present
,
I
will
but
re●ite
the
praier
,
which
the
Monkes
of
the
Abbey
of
Fons
make
ordinarily
vnto
the
table-cloth
vpon
which
,
&
according
to
their
tradition
,
they
saie
our
Sauiour
and
Lord
Iesus
Christ
hath
celebrated
the
holy
Sacrament
with
his
disciples
.
And
those
which
the
Monkes
of
Cahors
sing
vsually
going
in
procession
,
in
honour
of
his
kerchiefe
,
and
to
the
great
dishonor
of
the
person
of
our
blessed
Sauiour
,
and
onely
mediator
Iesus
Christ
.
The
Monkes
of
Fons
,
esteeming
more
of
an
olde
and
false
table-cloth
,
then
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
the
authour
of
truth
and
niewnesse
of
life
,
call
vpon
it
for
aide
in
this
manner
,
Sanctissima
Dei
mappa
ora
pro
nobis
,
O
most
holy
table-cloth
of
God
pray
for
vs
.
The
Monkes
of
Cahors
addressing
themselves
rather
vnto
the
Napkin
or
kerchief
,
which
our
Redeemer
left
behinde
him
to
rot
in
his
sepulchre
,
them
vnto
this
high
Priest
who
shortly
after
his
resurrection
was
taken
vp
by
his
Father
into
Heaven
,
to
make
there
continuall
intercession
for
vs
,
cryes
vnto
it
singing
in
this
manner
Sancte
Sudari
ora
pro
nobis
that
is
,
O
holy
handkerchiefe
pray
for
vs
.
againe
,
Sudarium
Christi
liberet
nos
a
peste
&
morte
tristi
.
that
is
,
O
kerchiefe
of
Christ
deliver
vs
from
plague
and
a
heavie
death
.
Moreover
,
they
cr●ue
that
for
his
kerchiefes
sake
representing
the
face
of
Christ
by
picture
,
it
would
please
him
to
let
them
behold
his
face
aboue
in
Heauen
.
Omnipotens
sempiterne
Deus
,
qui
in
memoriam
passionis
vnigeniti
Filij
tui
,
sanctam
eius
sindonem
,
cum
expressaipsius
effigie
venerandam
reliquistiin
terris
,
tribue
,
quaesumus
,
vt
per
virtutem
eius
sanctae
sindonis
faciem
tuam
contemplari
mereamur
in
coelis
:
That
is
to
say
.
O
Almightie
and
Eternall
God
,
which
in
memorie
of
the
passion
of
thy
only
begotten
son
,
hast
left
behinde
him
on
earth
his
holy
Sindon
with
his
shape
printed
vpon
it
,
graunt
that
through
the
vertue
of
this
holy
lunen
wee
maye
merrit
to
contemplate
thy
face
in
Heaven
.
O
Lord
how
long
wilt
thou
endure
this
idolatrie
?
The
fourth
abuse
consisteth
,
To
this
purpose
Socrates
reporteth
in
the
14.
Chap.
and
7.
booke
of
his
Historie
,
Also
,
Erasmus
of
Rotterdam
reporteth
in
his
Conferences
,
Gregorie
surnamed
Turonensis
,
and
diverse
other
Historians
affirme
,
It
is
most
manifest
,
that
presently
after
the
reformation
of
the
Churches
in
France
,
Helvetia
,
Germanie
,
and
some
other
adjoyning
places
,
they
founde
in
the
shrines
&
chestes
of
the
papall
reliques
,
the
bones
of
diverse
Beasts
,
pieces
of
brickes
,
spriggs
of
trees
,
cordes
,
and
manie
other
trifles
,
&
small
trash
,
which
these
superstitious
men
had
worshipped
,
during
the
night
of
their
ignorance
,
&
the
thicke
darknesse
of
their
idolatries
.
Calvin
noteth
in
his
admonition
against
the
reliques
of
the
Romish
Church
,
Theodorus
Besa
proueth
by
the
testimonie
of
more
then
fiftie
eye-witnesses
,
Francis
Bauldwin
,
that
at
Bourges
they
found
a
wheele
turning
about
vpon
a
staff
adorned
with
this
laciuious
and
magicall
verse
written
vpon
a
scrole
of
parchment
.
Quand
ceste
roue
tournera
,
Celle
que
saime
,
m'aimera
.
That
is
to
say
,
When
this
wheele
shall
turne
about
,
Shee
whome
I
loue
,
shall
loue
mee
.
And
at
Tours
a
Card
which
gamesters
call
the
knaue
of
Dyamants
,
with
a
bawdie
and
villennous
song
written
vppon
it
by
some
whoremonger
,
&
put
into
a
silver
Arme.
And
after
that
a
silver
crosse
besett
with
many
precious
perles
,
and
with
an
Agath
,
wherevpon
was
engraven
the
picture
of
Venus
bewailing
the
death
of
Adonis
her
Louer
lying
by
her
,
which
the
vulgar
sort
of
people
adored
vpon
the
day
of
the
death
and
passion
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
Rodulphus
Hospaniā
attesteth
likewise
,
Although
these
Testimonies
are
worthy
of
beliefe
,
and
approved
by
every
man
without
contradiction
:
yet
I
assure
myself
,
that
our
adversaries
will
take
a
small
occasion
,
at
the
very
name
of
these
Authours
,
to
quarrell
at
the
Title
of
their
bookes
,
&
to
call
them
in
question
and
reject
them
.
I
feare
I
shall
not
get
much
more
,
by
inserting
here
the
wordes
of
George
Cassander
one
of
their
chiefest
writers
,
Chrystopher
Plantine
Anno.
1521.
to
purge
his
writtings
of
that
,
which
hee
teacheth
in
them
,
of
the
true
&
naturall
signification
of
the
word
Merit
,
and
of
the
ancient
custome
of
the
Fathers
&
Apostolique
Doctors
,
concerning
the
administration
of
the
holy
Sacrament
of
the
Lordes
supper
,
vnder
the
two
signes
of
bread
and
wine
,
vsed
for
more
then
a
thousand
yeeres
after
the
comming
of
Christ
.
Likewise
they
condemne
therein
his
booke
intituled
Preces
ecclesiasticae
,
that
is
ecclesiasticall
Prayers
;
and
his
exhortation
touching
the
extenuation
of
the
invocation
of
Saincts
,
and
al
his
Disputations
vpon
their
merits
.
Now
if
these
Physitions
make
noe
conscience
,
to
prescribe
vnto
Christians
,
that
they
should
apply
their
expurgatorie
index
vnto
Cassander
books
,
to
draw
from
them
the
pure
blood
and
vitall
sappe
,
&
leaue
nothing
in
them
but
the
corrupt
and
badd
humours
:
haue
not
I
then
just
occasion
to
suspect
the
like
answere
vpon
the
allegation
of
his
testimonie
,
and
that
they
will
say
Cassander
passed
the
limits
of
their
rules
and
traditions
in
his
discourse
abouesaid
,
&
so
consequently
they
ought
to
cutt
of
what-soever
they
judge
therein
vicious
and
superfluous
?
Not-with-standing
,
there
is
the
bodye
of
a
whole
Council
,
called
the
Council
of
the
auncient
Bishops
,
which
their
cheifest
Doctours
hold
for
perfectly
found
,
and
can
in
no
manner
bee
stayned
with
any
corruption
,
and
wherein
they
can
finde
nothing
that
is
worthie
of
purging
and
correcting
,
whereby
wee
can
shew
them
,
that
manie
ages
agoe
,
the
reliques
of
Saints
haue
been
suspected
by
their
predecessours
,
assembled
in
the
ancient
Councils
.
Wee
reade
then
in
the
14.
Canon
of
the
5.
Council
of
Carthage
,
that
Aurelius
Bishop
of
the
Carthagian
Church
,
accompanied
with
two
and
seventy
Byshops
of
the
neighbouring
Churches
,
reprooved
therein
certaine
reliques
,
counterfeited
by
some
falsifiers
,
&
priuily
brought
into
the
primitive
Church
,
for
loe
,
the
Contents
of
the
Canon
rune
thus
.
Placuit
vt
altaria
quae
passim
per
agros
aut
vias
tanquam
memoriae
Martyrum
constituuntur
,
in
quibus
nullum
corpusaut
reliquae
Martyrum
conditae
probantur
,
ab
Episcopis
qui
cisdem
locis
praesunt
(
si
fieri
potest
)
evertantur
.
Si
autem
hoc
propter
tumultus
popularis
non
sinitur
,
plebis
tamen
admoneantur
ne
illa
loca
frequentent
,
vt
qui
recta
sapiunt
,
nulla
tibi
supestitione
devincti
teneantur
:
Et
omninò
nulla
tibi
memoria
Martyrum
probabiliter
acceptetur
,
nisi
aut
ibi
corpus
,
aut
aliquae
certae
reliquiae
sint
,
aut
vbi
origo
alicuius
habitationis
,
vel
possessionis
,
vel
passionis
fidelissimâ
origine
traditur
.
Nam
quae
per
somnia
&
per
manes
quasi
revelationes
quorum
libet
hominum
vbique
constituntur
altaria
,
omnino
reprobent●r
.
That
is
to
say
.
It
hath
pleased
vs
(
to
decree
in
this
Councill
)
that
the
Altars
which
are
built
vp
and
downe
in
feilds
,
and
by
the
way
sides
,
as
in
memorie
of
the
Martyrs
,
In
which
one
cannot
finde
,
that
there
hath
ben
enclossed
the
Bodies
or
reliques
of
the
Martyrs
,
should
be
cast
downe
if
it
be
possible
by
the
Bishops
of
those
places
.
But
if
they
cannot
doe
it
because
of
the
popular
tumult
,
Let
them
never-the-lesse
admonish
the
people
,
not
to
frequent
such
places
,
to
the
end
,
that
those
which
be
wise
,
may
not
be
carryed
away
with
superstition
.
And
let
them
receiue
noe
where
,
any
memorie
of
the
Martyrs
,
but
in
those
places
wherein
their
is
some
corps
,
and
certaine
reliques
,
or
some
tradition
of
the
sure
originall
,
of
the
abode
of
some
Martyr
,
or
of
his
suffring
:
For
wee
haue
thought
it
good
,
that
they
wholly
cast
downe
the
Altars
,
established
by
the
dreames
and
revelations
of
all
sort
of
persons
.
By
these
wordes
it
appeareth
then
,
that
wee
are
not
the
first
which
haue
warned
the
superstitious
,
first
,
that
the
simplicity
of
their
ancestours
,
and
their
naturall
inclination
in
giving
eare
vnto
the
dreames
and
lies
of
all
sort
of
Doters
,
hath
opened
the
way
vnto
many
false
reliques
.
Secondly
,
that
their
foolish
devotion
made
them
lay
them
vnder
,
and
afterward
neere
vnto
Altars
.
Thirdly
,
that
their
obstinacie
hath
by
all
force
,
with-held
the
good
Bishops
from
purging
the
Churches
of
them
,
mentioned
in
the
Canon
already
cited
.
More-over
,
we
could
here
copie
out
the
decrees
of
some
other
Counsells
,
especially
that
of
Lions
,
whereby
their
Pries●s
in
former
times
haue
ben
advertised
of
this
abuse
,
and
exhorted
to
seeke
remedy
for
it
.
We
could
also
produce
many
sentences
of
the
Fathers
,
conformable
to
them
:
But
in
doing
it
,
we
should
offend
the
Romanists
,
who
beleeue
that
Counsells
cannot
erre
,
to
alledge
them
for
a
proofe
vnto
the
said
Cannon
,
approoued
long
agoe
by
their
predecessours
,
and
which
they
holde
still
for
authentique
.
The
fift
abuse
testifies
,
the
man
that
trusteth
in
man
,
and
maketh
flesh
his
arme
.
Also
,
they
haue
read
for
the
most
part
,
that
the
marke
whereby
God
discerneth
the
way
of
his
people
from
strangers
,
who
are
not
yet
converted
vnto
him
,
is
,
according
as
the
same
Prophet
Ieremiah
propounds
it
,
that
the
people
of
God
sweare
by
his
name
,
to
wit
,
The
Lord
liveth
:
but
the
idolatrous
people
which
haue
noe
communior
.
with
him
,
sweare
by
Baal
.
Beside
,
they
are
not
ignorant
that
the
Apostle
.
S.
Paul
(
according
to
the
translation
of
the
two
&
seauentie
interpretours
)
translateth
in
his
Epistle
the
word
swearing
which
the
Prophet
Isaiah
vseth
in
the
45.
Chapter
of
his
prophesie
,
for
a
Confession
,
from
which
exposition
of
the
Apostles
,
euerie
man
of
a
sounde
judgment
may
discerne
by
a
necessary
consequence
,
that
as
the
Apostle
,
calleth
the
swearing
,
made
by
the
name
of
God
,
a
confession
,
and
an
acknowledgment
of
his
divine
Maiestie
,
and
of
the
Souveraine
authority
he
hath
ouer
all
his
Creatures
:
So
on
the
contrary
,
wee
may
tearme
a
deniall
,
and
abiuration
from
his
name
,
euery
oath
which
is
sworne
in
the
name
of
the
departed
Saincts
,
or
of
their
reliques
.
But
this
is
not
all
.
For
euen
by
their
owne
consciences
they
are
convicted
.
First
,
by
that
testimonie
which
S.
Peter
giues
vs
,
in
the
booke
of
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
that
there
is
noe
saluation
in
any
other
than
in
Christ
,
The
sixt
abuse
is
,
that
the
Monkes
and
Priests
of
the
papacy
,
more
zealous
in
keeping
a
good
fire
in
their
kitchin
,
then
the
ashes
of
the
Martyrs
and
other
deceased
Saincts
to
make
their
reliques
the
more
to
be
respected
,
haue
attributed
to
them
the
power
of
doing
many
miracles
,
after
the
manner
and
imitation
of
the
Sorcerers
,
&
false
Prophets
of
the
Heathen
.
For
,
as
S.
Augustine
reporteth
in
the
one
and
twentith
,
and
two
and
twentith
booke
of
the
citie
of
God
,
that
the
Heathenish
Sorcerers
,
maintained
heretofore
night
&
day
(
throw
a
diabolicall
slight
,
admirable
to
the
eyes
of
the
ignorant
)
the
light
of
Venus
lampe
,
&
bragged
because
they
had
the
reliques
of
Hercules
,
Romulus
,
and
Bacchus
,
which
had
done
some
miracles
in
the
temples
dedicated
to
their
memory
:
so
before
that
the
auncient
pagans
,
went
oftentimes
on
pilgrimage
out
of
Egypt
(
witnesse
Epiphanus
)
vnto
the
Prophet
Ieremias
sepulchre
,
because
their
Diviners
made
them
beleeue
,
that
their
Gods
had
revealed
,
that
the
bones
of
this
Prophet
could
preserue
them
from
the
stinging
of
Aspes
,
and
Crocodils
.
And
that
Ptolomeus
their
king
,
was
perswaded
to
haue
the
corps
of
Alexander
the
great
transported
into
Aegypt
,
through
the
prediction
of
Aristander
,
who
tould
them
,
that
the
Countrey
wherein
the
body
of
king
Alexander
rested
,
should
abounde
in
all
riches
,
and
should
bee
preserved
from
the
oppression
of
their
ennemies
,
as
Aelian
gives
vs
to
vnderstand
in
the
12.
booke
of
his
sundry
Histories
.
If
the
Priestes
of
the
Romane
Church
vsed
but
this
in
comon
with
the
abouesaid
Sorcerers
and
sooth
sayers
,
that
manie
miracles
haue
bene
done
,
by
touching
and
worshipping
the
reliques
of
some
great
personnages
,
renowned
in
their
Countreys
:
then
they
would
not
be
so
much
offended
with
vs
;
because
wee
make
noe
reckoning
of
them
.
But
they
proceede
further
:
for
some
of
their
Sorcerers
haue
also
done
miracles
&
cured
many
diseases
with
the
braines
of
a
Cat
,
the
head
of
a
Raven
,
&
such
like
reliques
of
dead
beastes
,
as
Bodin
proueth
in
his
third
booke
of
Sorcerers
,
by
the
testimonie
of
Idocus
Damhouder
of
Bruges
,
and
other
credible
Historians
.
So
that
there
is
noe
more
likelihood
of
truth
,
in
the
one
sort
of
miracles
,
them
in
the
other
,
seeing
that
the
former
haue
ben
done
with
asmuch
shewe
of
devotion
towards
the
departed
Saincts
,
and
their
reliques
,
as
those
which
at
this
present
are
so
much
esteemed
in
the
papacy
.
For
Bodin
reporteth
in
the
same
booke
,
and
second
Chapter
,
how
a
Sorceresse
of
Bruges
cured
an
infinit
number
of
diseases
,
and
that
shee
tould
such
as
came
vnto
her
,
that
they
must
steadfastly
beleeue
,
that
she
had
the
power
to
help
them
of
their
sicknesses
.
Afterward
,
shee
commaunded
them
to
fast
,
and
then
to
repeate
ouer
certaine
times
a
Pater-noster
,
or
that
they
should
goe
on
pilgrimage
to
S.
Iames
or
to
S.
Arnoult
.
What
an
impudencie
is
it
then
,
in
these
Boasters
of
reliques
,
to
bragg
and
vaunt
themselues
,
at
there
miracles
,
wherein
often
times
hath
bene
discouuered
many
deceits
and
illusions
.
For
behold
how
S.
Augustin
answered
the
miraclers
of
his
time
,
especially
the
disciples
of
Donat
,
saith
hee
)
tell
mee
that
this
or
that
is
true
,
because
that
Donat
,
Pontius
,
or
some
other
,
hath
done
such
and
such
like
miracles
,
or
because
some
men
,
which
pray
vnto
the
memory
of
our
dead
,
are
heard
,
or
because
that
vpon
it
,
there
comes
to
passe
such
and
such
like
things
,
or
that
this
our
sister
hath
seene
waking
such
a
vission
,
or
dreaming
hath
dreamed
such
a
dreame
.
Away
with
all
these
fictions
of
lying
men
,
or
shewers
of
guilfull
Spirits
.
For
either
that
which
they
say
is
false
,
or
if
the
Heretiques
doe
some
wonders
,
so
much
the
more
ought
we
to
take
heede
of
them
,
because
the
Lord
after
he
had
said
,
that
there
should
come
many
deceivers
,
which
in
shewing
great
signes
and
wonders
,
should
deceiue
the
Elect
,
If
it
were
possible
,
addeth
therevnto
worthy
of
great
commandations
,
Behold
,
I
haue
tould
you
before
.
It
were
an
endlesse
labour
then
,
to
vtter
all
the
falacy
and
guiles
,
whereby
they
deceiue
the
people
,
yea
,
which
their
owne
Doctours
haue
found
out
&
amonge
others
,
that
which
Nicolas
Lyra
,
heretofore
perceived
in
the
miracles
,
which
the
Priests
of
his
age
feigned
(
as
this
writter
speaketh
)
for
temporall
gaine
.
Now
these
jugling
trickes
of
the
ministers
of
Antichrist
,
are
so
much
the
more
detestable
;
in
regard
they
attribute
not
onely
the
power
of
doing
miracles
to
the
reliques
of
Christ
,
of
the
virgin
Mary
,
of
the
Apostles
,
of
the
holy
Martyrs
,
and
other
excellent
personnages
,
renowned
for
their
good
life
&
purenesse
in
doctrine
,
but
also
to
the
reliques
of
the
greatest
deceivers
of
the
world
.
To
begin
then
with
the
reliques
of
S.
Francis
,
(
who
for
his
impiety
was
condemned
by
Pope
Iohn
the
22.
as
a
pervertour
of
the
Christian
religion
,
)
it
is
written
in
the
booke
of
Conformities
,
that
a
woman
troubled
with
the
bloody
flix
for
the
space
of
thirteene
yeeres
,
was
cured
thereof
by
touching
the
hemme
of
his
gowne
,
and
that
a
blinde
man
recouvered
his
sight
by
touching
of
his
hoode
.
S.
Gregory
also
rehearseth
in
the
first
booke
of
his
Dialogues
,
&
second
Chapter
,
That
a
provost
of
the
monasterie
of
Funda
in
Italie
called
Libertinus
,
having
drawne
on
a
stocking
of
the
Abbot
S.
Honorats
,
mett
a
woeman
that
went
to
burie
her
Sonne
,
who
importuned
him
with
many
prayers
to
raise
him
from
the
dead
,
&
this
good
prouost
graunting
her
her
request
,
laid
the
stocking
ouer
her
said
son
,
and
put
life
into
him
againe
through
the
vertue
thereof
.
He
likewise
reporteth
in
the
third
booke
of
his
Dialogues
,
that
in
the
time
of
a
drought
,
the
Citizens
of
Spoleta
made
great
store
of
raine
to
fall
vpon
their
Soile
,
by
lifting
vp
towards
heauen
the
gowne
of
S.
Eutychus
.
Wee
knowe
also
that
some
woemen
with
Child
,
following
the
Counsell
of
their
Monkes
,
haue
kissed
S.
Ioostlings
breeches
in
Flaunders
,
others
lifted
vp
S.
Arnoults
—
,
others
haue
stradled
ouer
S.
Guerchilous
image
,
hoping
by
this
meanes
to
bee
the
more
safely
deliuered
of
their
children
.
Wee
are
not
ignorant
likewise
,
that
many
Idiots
of
the
Romane
Church
,
beleeue
,
that
there
is
in
the
citie
of
Orleans
some
residue
of
the
marriage
wine
,
of
Cana
in
Galile
,
which
never
diminisheth
although
they
drinke
oftentimes
thereof
.
And
in
our
Ladies
Church
at
Rome
,
and
at
S.
Salvader
in
Spaine
,
some
of
the
morcells
of
those
Loaues
,
wherewith
Christ
fed
fiue
thousand
persons
in
the
wildernesse
,
which
neuer
lesseneth
,
although
they
oftentimes
eate
their
bellies
full
thereof
.
Moreouer
they
beleeue
,
that
the
Prelates
of
Rome
haue
in
some
of
their
Churches
,
diverse
reliques
of
a
wonderfull
force
and
vertue
,
as
at
S.
Iohn
Latrans
,
the
wastcoate
of
the
Apostle
S.
Iohn
,
which
being
heretofore
laid
ouer
three
dead
bodies
,
made
them
to
rise
vp
aliue
in
the
field
.
At
S.
Pauls
,
that
crucifix
which
spake
vnto
S.
Brigit
,
Queene
of
Sweethland
,
when
shee
came
to
pray
in
that
place
.
At
S.
Iohn
del'
Isle
,
that
image
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
which
at
the
overflowing
of
the
Tiber
,
could
not
be
spoiled
,
nor
her
lampe
put
out
with
the
water
.
At
S.
Francis
the
bodie
of
S.
Lodovica
,
a
a
Romaine
lady
,
which
doth
many
miracles
.
At
S.
Maries
Transpontina
a
cruci●ix
,
which
spake
heretofore
to
S.
Peter
&
S.
Paul
.
To
S.
Mary
en
voy
large
,
a
small
picture
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
which
hath
wrought
many
miracles
.
At
S.
Maries
laneufve
,
an
other
small
picture
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
which
was
miraculously
preserved
in
the
midst
of
a
great
fire
,
which
burned
the
other
ornaments
of
this
Church
.
At
S.
Augustins
,
an
image
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
painted
by
S.
Luke
,
which
did
also
many
miracles
in
the
time
of
pope
Innocent
the
eight
.
At
S.
Martins
,
a
gowne
which
the
virgin
Mary
made
for
her
sonne
Christ
Iesus
in
his
minority
,
which
miraculously
groweth
to
the
same
stature
as
himself
grew
.
In
S.
Pontials
Church-yeard
an
host
consecrated
by
a
Priest
,
singing
masse
in
the
Chappel
,
which
because
he
doubted
,
whether
it
was
the
body
of
Christ
,
sprung
out
of
his
hand
in
a
wonderfull
manner
;
and
falling
vppon
the
ground
made
a
marke
of
blood
which
is
to
be
seene
within
a
litle
grate
of
iron
yet
vnto
this
day
.
A
jest
not
vnlike
to
that
of
the
Iesuits
,
and
advocats
of
that
horrible
conspiracie
of
Garnet
,
and
of
his
complices
,
against
the
Crowne
of
the
King
of
great
Britanie
,
who
were
so
impudent
(
as
this
wise
King
accuseth
them
,
thereof
,
in
the
preface
of
his
Apologie
dedicated
to
the
Emperour
,
&
all
other
Princes
in
Christendom
)
that
thy
were
not
ashamed
to
say
and
write
,
that
after
the
execution
of
that
Traitor
,
quartered
with
his
confederats
in
London
,
a
woman
found
a
straw
tinctured
with
a
dropp
of
bloode
which
sprunge
from
the
body
of
of
this
traitour
,
and
was
miraculously
metamorphosed
into
the
resemblance
of
his
head
chopt
off
,
with
a
crowne
set
vpon
it
.
But
as
this
deceit
was
soone
after
discouvered
,
and
manifested
to
the
world
,
aswell
by
the
penn
of
this
King
and
Solomon
of
our
age
,
as
by
the
art
of
his
painters
,
who
according
to
his
Maiesties
desire
,
drew
a
picture
vpon
a
straw
and
a
drop
of
blood
taken
from
some
other
body
like
vnto
the
same
in
all
things
:
So
,
I
beseech
God
,
that
it
will
please
him
by
this
exsample
and
advertisment
,
to
awaken
all
other
Christian
Kings
,
to
sift
out
and
examine
more
deligentlie
then
they
haue
done
in
times
past
,
the
other
jugling
trickes
of
the
forgers
of
reliques
,
and
lying
wonders
.
This
is
that
(
Gentle
Reader
,
)
which
our
Iosiah
my
dread
Souverain
(
vpon
whose
sacred
person
,
the
Lord
hath
experimented
his
preservations
from
their
damnable
treasons
:
because
he
dwelleth
in
the
secret
of
the
most
hie
,
At
S.
Maries
de
la
consolation
an
image
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
which
hath
done
many
miracles
.
In
S.
Vitus
Church
an
oyle
drawne
from
the
reliques
of
that
Sainct
,
which
being
mixed
with
them
,
healeth
the
byting
of
madd
doggs
.
At
S.
Sabinaes
a
huge
blacke
stone
,
chained
to
the
great
Altar
,
which
the
Divel
threw
at
S.
Dominicus
to
overwhelme
him
while
he
prayed
in
that
place
:
but
it
chaunced
,
that
this
stone
burst
miraculously
,
&
that
S.
Dominicus
was
not
hurt
therewith
.
At
S.
Iulians
a
water
distilled
with
the
reliques
of
S.
Iulian
whi●h
helpeth
al
manner
of-fevers
and
diseases
.
In
the
same
Church
an
Image
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
brought
from
the
citie
of
Edessa
,
which
vpon
a
day
,
seing
the
holy
man
S.
Alexis
comming
towards
her
,
after
his
wonted
manner
to
say
his
prayers
,
and
hearing
him
knock
at
one
of
the
Church-doores
spake
twise
together
vnto
the
Sexten
,
Open
,
and
let
in
that
holy
man
of
God
S.
Alexis
,
for
he
hath
merited
Heaven
.
In
S.
B●bians
Church-yeard
an
herbe
which
shee
herself
planted
,
that
cureth
the
falling
sicknesse
.
At
S.
Anastases
a
pillar
wherevpon
they
cut
of
S.
Pauls
head
,
which
being
falne
from
his
body
,
gaue
three
jumpes
,
and
at
euery
jump
sprang
forth
three
fountains
a
miraculous
-
lie
,
which
(
if
you
will
beleeue
it
)
are
to
be
seene
there
yet
vnto
this
day
.
At
S.
Maries
de
la
voy
,
an
Image
of
the
virgin
Maries
,
which
hath
done
diuerse
miracles
.
By
the
Church
of
the
Abbey
of
Save
,
a
fountaine
,
which
cureth
many
diseases
,
but
especially
the
bloody
flix
.
Also
they
approue
the
fallacy
of
the
parisian
Priests
,
who
say
,
that
the
Crucifix
,
which
they
keepe
in
S.
Denis
Church
,
spake
in
time
past
to
testifie
that
this
Church
was
dedicated
vnto
him
:
and
other
Deceiuers
which
maintaine
that
their
Crucifixes
haue
wept
heretofore
,
and
that
they
still
haue
of
their
teares
.
They
approue
also
that
palpable
jest
of
their
Doctours
,
that
the
speare
of
Pilates
souldier
called
Lonchè
,
was
transformed
into
a
blinde
man
,
which
they
call
Longin
,
and
that
being
advanced
from
a
souldier
to
a
Captaine
,
recouvered
his
sight
after
he
had
washed
his
eyes
with
the
water
and
blood
,
which
issued
foorth
of
Christs
side
,
which
himself
had
wounded
,
and
through
this
miracle
,
was
mooued
to
make
profession
of
the
Christian
religion
,
&
to
seale
it
with
his
owne
martyredome
.
But
who
is
able
to
reckon
vp
all
the
false
miracles
,
which
the
Quacksalvers
of
the
Romane
Church
,
attribute
to
the
gownes
,
dubblets
,
hose
,
jackets
,
shirts
,
smocks
,
girdles
,
and
other
ragges
of
the
departed
?
And
who
dares
make
any
question
of
it
,
but
that
the
Pope
,
who
at
this
present
liveth
in
Rome
,
&
maketh
himself
to
be
worshipped
as
a
God
,
The
seauenth
abuse
is
worthier
of
laughing
then
of
refuting
.
Iohn
Baptist.
They
also
put
amonge
the
pieces
of
their
reliques
,
things
invisible
and
imposible
to
be
showne
,
as
the
sounde
of
the
bells
in
the
Temple
of
Ierusalem
,
the
puffing
of
Ioseph
when
he
cloue
woode
,
which
they
keepe
al
Court-cheverni
.
They
giue
likewise
to
the
Angels
and
invisible
Spirits
,
corporall
and
visible
armes
.
As
for
example
,
they
glory
at
Carcassonnae
&
at
S.
Iulian
de
Tours
for
having
S.
Michels
buckler
and
poinyard
.
Also
they
shew
with
them
the
taile
of
that
asse
that
carryed
out
Lord
Iesus
Christ
into
Ierusalem
when
he
made
his
royall
entrie
therein
:
The
feathers
of
the
chickins
procreated
by
the
Cock
which
crew
when
S.
Peter
denied
his
master
:
and
a
morcell
of
the
broiled
fish
which
S.
P●ter
presented
to
Christ
after
his
resurrection
,
when
he
appeared
vnto
them
by
the
Zea
side
,
which
hath
lasted
ever
since
without
rotting
,
and
cann
be
better
preserued
from
corruption
,
then
Christs
flesh
,
which
notwithstanding
the
Consecration
of
the
host
,
which
s●rueth
him
as
a
couver●ed
,
spoileth
if
the
priest
keepe
it
too
longe
in
his
boxe
.
Beside
all
this
,
they
shewe
at
Rome
the
impression
of
Christs
feete
,
which
is
to
be
seene
in
S.
Laurences
Church
,
where
our
Saviour
meeting
with
S.
Peter
after
his
ascention
,
tould
him
that
hee
should
suffer
at
Rome
.
And
who
would
not
mocke
at
these
&
such
like
reliques
of
these
connicatchers
,
when
they
themselues
mock
at
one
another
,
and
take
delight
in
deceiuing
each
other
,
and
sporting
some
crafty
devise
or
another
vppon
the
poore
ignorant
people
,
which
attend
and
waite
with
great
devotion
for
the
representation
and
sight
of
them
?
Whereof
we
finde
sundry
examples
in
our
moderne
Histories
,
of
which
I
will
onely
,
alledge
two
,
which
are
so
abhominable
that
noe
man
that
feareth
God
and
is
pure
in
heart
,
cann
consider
them
,
without
disdaine
and
horrour
.
So
then
,
Martinus
Chemnicius
reporteth
in
his
treatise
of
reliques
,
made
against
the
decree
of
the
Counsell
of
Trent
,
touching
the
veneration
of
them
,
That
a
certaine
Orator
&
porter
of
the
popes
bulls
,
vaunted
vpon
a
day
,
that
amonge
other
of
his
reliques
,
hee
had
some
of
the
feathers
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
now
a
chiefe
companion
of
his
consort
,
over
hearing
him
,
picked
cuningly
his
boxe
and
taking
away
his
feathers
,
laid
coales
into
it
in
stead
of
them
.
On
the
morrow
this
Oratour
was
to
make
a
longe
Sermon
and
discourse
vpon
the
feathers
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
seing
the
people
falne
downe
vpon
their
mariebones
to
behold
&
worship
them
,
opening
his
boxe
to
pull
foorth
his
feathers
,
found
coales
in
it
,
whereat
he
neither
blushed
nor
was
put
out
of
countenance
,
but
presently
chaunging
his
discourse
,
was
so
expect
in
his
art
of
lying
,
that
he
tould
them
he
had
mistaken
his
boxe
,
&
that
those
were
the
coales
taken
vp
from
vnder
the
gridyron
,
wherevpon
S.
Laurence
had
bene
carbinadood
.
Another
Germaine
Divine
named
Iacobus
Herbrandus
,
auoucheth
in
his
disputation
de
Sceloatriae
,
that
a
certaine
priest
of
Rotenborough
neare
vnto
Nicre
,
called
Pfaff
Isele
,
hauing
bene
at
Rome
and
created
the
popes
Indulgentiar
,
returned
from
thence
into
his
Countrey
furnished
with
diverse
reliques
,
amonge
others
one
of
the
winges
of
Michael
the
Archangel
:
Now
to
make
it
the
more
beneficiall
vnto
him
,
he
extolled
the
vertues
thereof
in
all
his
Sermons
.
But
vpon
a
Sunday
,
being
loged
in
an
Inn
,
within
the
village
of
Altingue
,
and
being
overcome
with
wine
,
he
kept
not
his
boxe
of
reliques
so
carefully
as
hee
had
done
before
.
So
that
through
this
mischance
,
his
reliques
were
stolne
:
On
the
morrow
being
got
vp
,
&
perceiving
the
theft
,
spake
not
a
worde
thereof
to
his
Hostis
,
because
hee
suspected
that
shee
knew
it
:
but
went
and
fott
a
handfull
of
haye
out
of
the
next
cratch
in
the
stable
,
&
laying
it
in
his
boxe
,
called
his
Hostis
and
tould
her
.
See
,
here
are
my
reliques
,
whereat
she
begann
to
laugh
,
notwithstanding
hee
tould
her
,
that
when
shee
came
to
church
,
to
bee
an
assistant
in
the
holy
service
,
shee
should
also
kisse
those
reliques
,
shee
replyed
vpon
it
shee
would
not
,
but
hee
wagered
that
shee
should
.
After
this
coming
to
Church
,
this
priest
begann
to
preach
of
the
admirable
vertues
of
his
reliques
,
and
to
declare
vnto
the
people
,
that
he
had
a
handfull
of
the
hay
of
the
stable
in
Bethelem
,
wherevpon
our
Redeemer
Iesus
Christ
had
oftentimes
slept
,
when
hee
was
a
babe
,
which
had
the
power
to
preserue
from
the
plague
(
wherewith
Germanie
was
then
infected
)
all
those
which
did
but
kisse
it
,
and
to
driue
away
all
Adulterers
and
Adulteresses
which
came
neere
vnto
it
:
Now
his
Hostis
that
knewe
full
well
the
deceit
of
this
shamelesse
Priest
,
seeking
on
the
side
to
spare
her
monie
,
and
fearing
on
the
other
side
to
lose
wholly
her
good
name
,
because
her
chastitie
was
called
into
question
before
,
choose
rather
at
last
after
longe
deliberation
,
to
cast
away
her
money
,
then
to
bring
her
reputation
into
a
furder
danger
,
so
that
shee
was
the
very
last
that
came
to
kisse
the
reliques
of
her
owne
stable
,
and
the
priest
tould
her
in
her
eare
,
What
,
art
thou
come
too
?
The
same
Doctour
annexeth
vnto
this
storie
,
that
many
Germanies
having
heard
say
of
the
vertue
of
his
reliques
,
ranne
in
al
hast
vnto
this
Priest
to
kisse
them
,
but
for
all
that
,
they
were
not
preserued
from
the
plague
,
but
miserable
a●●icted
therewith
.
Beside
,
that
Duke
Everhard
being
advertised
of
the
cossenning
trickes
of
this
Priest
,
commaunded
the
Divines
of
Tubinque
to
call
him
in
question
before
them
into
their
Vniversitie
,
to
reprooue
him
therefore
:
but
hee
too
well
vnderstanding
his
craft
,
answered
them
impudentlie
,
that
he
neither
had
lied
,
nor
beguiled
any
man
.
In
fine
,
after
a
serious
warning
,
which
these
Divines
gaue
him
,
that
it
was
more
then
mainfest
to
all
the
world
,
that
many
which
had
kissed
his
reliques
,
were
notwithstanding
dead
of
the
plague
,
he
replyed
in
a
flouting
manner
at
those
poore
superstitious
people
,
that
they
had
not
kissed
his
reliques
;
but
the
glasse
onely
wherein
he
had
putt
them
.
The
eight
abuse
is
noted
in
that
they
place
in
the
Catalogue
of
their
religious
reliques
,
as
worthy
of
Adoration
the
instruments
and
meanes
which
the
ennemies
of
our
Lord
vsed
to
intrapp
,
crucifie
,
and
perce
him
,
as
the
lanterne
which
Iudas
carryed
to
lighten
the
Sergeants
that
sought
his
Master
:
the
money
which
he
had
received
of
the
hie-Priest
to
betray
him
:
The
Crowne
of
thornes
which
they
put
vppon
his
head
,
and
the
nailes
and
speare
of
Pilates
hangman
,
vnto
which
they
pray
in
this
manner
.
Felix
hasta
,
nos
amore
per
te
fixi
sauciae
,
That
is
,
Happie
speare
,
wound
vs
with
his
loue
,
whome
thou
hast
pearced
.
To
which
also
they
add
the
Crosse
,
where
vnto
Pilates
souldiers
had
nailed
the
body
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
which
they
blesse
and
call
vpon
in
this
manner
.
O
crux
,
lignum
triumphale
!
Mundi
vera
salus
,
vale
,
Inter
ligna
nullum
tale
Fronde
,
flore
,
germine
.
Medicina
Christiana
,
Sanes
salva
,
aegros
sana
,
Quodnon
valet
vis
humana
,
Fit
●n
tuo
nomine
.
Assistentes
crucis
laudi
;
Consecrator
crucis
audi
.
Atque
servos
tuae
crucis
,
Post
hanc
vitam
,
verae
lucis
Transfer
ad
palatia
.
Quos
tormento
vis
servire
Fac
tormenta
non
sentire
,
Sed
cum
dies
erit
irae
,
Nobis
confer
&
largire
Sempiterna
gaudia
.
Amen
.
That
is
,
O
crosse
triumphant
wood
!
Al
haile
worlds
true
health
!
amonge
all
the
trees
in
the
woode
,
ther
s
not
thy
like
for
blossome
,
bough
,
and
budd
.
Christians
Physick
,
saue
the
sounde
and
heale
the
sick
.
That
which
no
humane
power
can
doe
,
is
done
in
thy
name
.
O
consecrator
of
thy
crosse
!
hearken
vnto
the
assistants
thereof
,
and
transport
after
this
life
,
the
servants
of
thy
Crosse
into
the
palace
of
thy
true
light
.
Graunt
that
those
whome
thou
hast
commaunded
should
suffer
torment
,
maye
feele
noe
torments
,
but
when
the
day
of
thy
wrath
shall
come
,
graunt
vs
eternall
ioy
.
Amen
.
Againe
.
O
crux
ave
!
spes
unica
Hoc
passionis
tempore
Qua
carne
,
carnis
conditor
Suspensus
est
patibulo
,
Auge
pijs
iustitiam
Reijsque
dona
veniam
.
That
is
to
say
.
Al
haile
ô
Crosse
our
onely
hope
in
the
time
of
this
passion
,
on
which
gibit
the
Creatour
of
all
flesh
,
according
to
his
flesh
was
hung
.
Encrease
righteousnes
in
the
Devote
,
&
pardon
the
guilty
.
And
againe
,
Dulce
lignum
,
dulces
clavos
Dulcia
ferens
pondera
,
Quae
sola
fuisti
digna
sustinere
Regem
coelorum
&
Dominium
,
That
is
to
say
.
O
sweete
woode
,
bearing
the
nailes
&
sweete
burthens
,
which
alone
hast
bene
worthy
to
beare
the
King
and
Lord
of
Heaven
.
And
although
at
some
time
they
addresse
their
prayers
to
God
himself
,
or
to
his
son
our
Redeemer
;
yet
they
attribute
not
onely
to
the
crosse
,
whereto
Christ
was
nailed
,
but
also
to
the
signe
thereof
,
made
by
the
hand
of
man
,
the
vertue
of
purchasing
vs
his
grace
,
and
maintaining
vs
therein
,
which
cannot
be
attributed
to
anie
other
(
without
Idolatrie
)
then
to
the
very
person
of
our
Saviour
,
heretofore
crucified
,
and
now
sitteth
at
the
right
hand
of
God
his
father
,
to
make
intercession
for
vs
,
and
to
intreate
him
to
be
merciful
&
fauorable
vnto
vs
.
First
they
craue
of
Christ
by
this
prayer
.
Concede
nobis
,
Domine
,
vt
qui
ad
sanctam
crucem
tuam
adorandam
vemunt
,
nexibus
peccatorum
liberentur
.
That
is
to
say
.
O
Lord
graunt
,
that
they
which
come
to
worship
thy
holy
Crosse
,
maye
bee
deliuered
from
the
bandes
of
their
sinnes
.
By
the
Second
,
O
crux
gloriosa
!
o
crux
adorandi
!
o
lignum
pretiosum
!
&
admirabile
signum
!
Christe
,
Rex
pijssime
,
huius
crucis
signaculo
,
horis
&
momentis
omnibus
munire
nos
non
abnuas
.
That
is
to
say
,
O
glorious
crosse
!
o
crosse
worthie
of
adoration
!
o
most
precious
wood
and
admirable
signe
!
Christ
!
most
godly
Kinge
,
refuse
not
to
preserue
vs
at
all
howers
and
moments
,
by
the
signe
of
this
crosse
.
The
third
.
Redemptor
mundi
,
signo
crucis
ab
omni
adversitate
custodi
,
qui
salvasti
Petrum
in
mari
,
miserere
nobis
,
That
is
to
say
,
Redeemer
of
the
world
,
preserue
vs
in
all
adversitie
by
the
signe
of
this
crosse
,
and
thou
which
sauedst
Peter
in
the
Sea
,
haue
mercie
on
vs
.
The
first
prayer
they
addresse
to
God
the
Father
is
,
Deus
qui
vnigeniti
Filij
tui
pretioso
sanguine
vivificae
crueis
vexillum
sanctificare
voluisti
,
concede
,
quaesumus
,
eos
qui
eiusdem
sanctae
crucis
gaudent
honore
,
tua
quoque
vbique
protectione
gaudere
.
That
is
to
say
.
O
God
which
was
willing
to
sanctifie
the
signe
of
the
crosse
,
quickning
it
by
the
precious
blood
of
thy
onely
begotten
sonne
,
graunt
vs
wee
pray
thee
,
that
those
which
reioyce
in
the
honour
of
the
signe
of
this
holy
crosse
,
may
reioyce
in
all
places
with
thy
protection
.
The
Second
.
Protege
,
Domine
,
plebem
tuam
par
signum
sanctae
crucis
ab
omnibus
in●idijs
inimicorum
omnium
,
vt
tibi
gratam
exhibeamus
servitutem
,
&
acceptabile
tibifiat
sacrificium
nostrum
.
That
is
,
Lord
protect
thy
people
by
the
signe
of
this
crosse
,
from
all
ambushments
of
their
ennemies
,
that
we
may
yeild
the
acceptable
seruice
,
and
that
our
sacrifice
may
please
thee
,
But
yet
this
is
worse
,
For
they
attribute
more
honour
to
the
crosse
,
then
to
Christs
resurrection
,
saying
in
their
prayer
to
Christ
,
Crucem
tuam
adoramus
,
Domine
,
resurrectionem
tuam
sanctam
glorificamus
.
That
is
,
Lord
wee
worship
thy
crosse
,
and
glorifie
thy
resurrection
.
And
to
the
one
,
&
to
the
other
:
Ecce
lignum
crucis
in
quo
salus
pependit
,
venite
,
adoremus
.
That
is
,
Behold
the
woode
of
the
crosse
,
whereon
salvation
hath
hunge
,
come
,
let
vs
worship
it
.
Is
not
this
then
to
seeke
in
rotten
wood
which
serues
christians
for
no
vse
that
which
cannot
be
founde
;
but
in
that
immaculate
Lambe
Christ
Iesus
,
which
is
without
blemish
,
who
was
taught
vnto
vs
by
our
Fathers
,
who
hath
redeemed
vs
from
our
vaine
conversation
,
not
with
corruptible
things
,
as
silver
and
golde
,
or
by
the
woode
of
the
crosse
,
but
with
his
most
precious
bloode
,
The
last
abuse
is
daylie
seene
,
in
the
sundry
opinions
,
Which
is
easie
to
bee
showne
by
their
owne
writings
,
and
the
inventories
of
their
reliques
.
To
begin
with
the
reliques
of
Christ
,
as
our
aduersaires
are
not
ashamed
to
maintaine
,
that
the
body
of
Christ
,
(
which
is
assended
vp
into
Heaven
,
to
remaine
there
,
vntill
the
restauration
of
all
things
,
Circumcisa
caro
Christi
,
sandalia
clera
Atque
vmbilici
viget
hîc
praecisio
clara
.
That
is
to
say
.
The
foreskinne
of
Christ
,
his
pantofles
also
With
his
Navill
,
are
inclossed
within
this
place
.
For
they
haue
showne
heretofore
the
first
foreskinn
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
in
our
Ladies
Church
at
Awcon
,
which
wee
shall
come
to
speake
of
more
amply
in
the
third
part
of
our
disputation
.
The
second
,
in
our
Ladies
Church
at
Anwerpe
.
The
third
at
Hildesham
in
Germanie
.
The
fourth
is
to
be
seene
yet
according
to
their
saying
at
Rome
in
S.
Iohn
Latrans
church
.
The
fifth
in
the
citie
of
Byzanson
in
the
free-Countie
:
and
the
sixt
in
the
Abbey
of
Charroux
in
France
.
So
that
by
this
reckoning
,
they
would
make
Christ
Iesus
not
a
man
,
like
vnto
vs
in
all
things
,
saue
in
sinne
,
but
in
stead
of
a
small
skinn
of
his
circumcision
,
hee
should
haue
six
,
and
consequently
as
manie
bodies
.
Also
S.
Iohn
Baptist
,
according
to
their
tradition
hath
had
manie
heads
&
visages
:
For
notwithstanding
that
the
Monkes
of
Rome
,
glory
in
that
they
haue
his
whole
head
in
the
Cloister
of
S.
Sylvester
,
those
of
Malta
vaunt
that
they
haue
the
hinder-part
,
and
they
of
Amiens
with
those
of
S.
Iohn
Angelique
for
having
the
forepart
with
the
gash
of
a
knife
,
which
Herodias
should
giue
him
ouerthwart
the
eye
,
as
the
hangman
brought
her
his
head
,
to
present
it
by
her
daughter
in
a
platter
to
Herode
&
his
frends
,
invited
to
the
feast
of
his
nativity
But
who
would
not
thinke
it
strange
and
incredible
,
that
the
Euangelists
,
which
haue
represented
vnto
vs
in
their
historie
,
all
the
markes
,
which
could
bee
perceiued
in
this
incestuous
strumpet
of
a
cruell
heart
,
thirsting
after
the
innocent
bloode
of
S.
Iohn
Baptist
,
should
haue
forgotten
to
shewe
vs
this
last
,
which
if
it
had
bene
true
,
would
haue
bene
more
remarkeable
then
all
the
rest
.
And
although
that
Eusebius
,
and
some
other
Historians
attest
,
that
the
body
of
this
Fore-runner
of
Christ
,
was
burned
to
ashes
,
yet
:
these
forgers
of
reliques
,
would
make
the
Idolaters
of
the
papacie
beleeue
,
that
the
finger
wherewith
Sainct
Iohn
Baptist
showed
our
LORD
Iesus
Christ
vnto
his
Disciples
,
in
saying
:
Behold
the
Lambe
of
God
which
taketh
away
the
sinnes
of
the
world
,
was
miraculously
preserved
by
the
providence
of
the
Lord
,
&
multiplyed
into
so
manie
fingers
,
that
their
at
least
six
of
them
found
,
to
wit
,
one
at
Lions
,
another
at
Bourges
,
the
third
at
Bezanson
in
S.
Iohn
the
greats
Church
,
The
fourth
at
S.
Fortuits
,
the
fifth
at
Thoulouse
,
and
the
sixt
at
Florence
.
As
for
the
Apostles
S.
Peter
and
S.
Paul
.
Albeit
the
Prelates
of
Rome
say
,
that
they
keepe
in
S.
Iohn
Latrans
church
their
whole
heads
,
&
their
bodies
parted
in
the
midst
,
weighed
,
and
divided
in
to
equall
shares
by
S.
Sylvester
in
S.
Pauls
Church
:
yet
those
of
Poitiers
seeke
to
perswade
the
comon
people
,
that
they
haue
S.
Peters
chinn
and
his
beard
,
those
of
Argenton
in
Berri
,
that
they
haue
one
of
S.
Pauls
shoulders
,
those
of
Trier
that
they
haue
manie
of
the
bones
of
these
two
Disciples
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
Likewise
those
of
Thoulouse
shew
one
body
of
S.
Andrews
,
and
those
of
melphe
another
.
The
Priests
of
Rome
also
wrangle
with
those
of
Trier
and
Padoua
for
S.
Matthias
body
;
because
euerie
one
of
these
three
townes
,
thinke
they
haue
his
corps
in
his
owne
Church
.
The
same
presbiters
striue
for
the
body
of
S.
Iames
the
yonger
,
S.
Phillips
,
S.
Symons
,
and
S.
Iudes
,
with
those
of
Thoulouse
,
which
maintaine
aswell
on
the
one
side
,
as
on
the
other
,
that
they
haue
in
their
Churches
the
same
bodies
of
these
Apostles
aboue
said
.
The
Romanists
shew
besides
,
two
seueral
bodies
of
two
other
Saints
in
two
other
places
,
as
the
body
of
S.
Anne
mother
vnto
the
virgin
Marie
,
and
Magdalenes
sister
vnto
Lazarus
,
the
wise
men
of
the
East
,
S.
Denises
,
S.
Anthonies
S.
Petronelles
,
S.
Susannas
,
S.
Hilaries
,
S.
Honorats
,
S.
Gilses
,
S.
Williams
,
and
S.
Ferreols
.
For
they
shew
one
of
S.
Anns
bodies
at
Apt
in
Provence
,
and
another
at
our
Ladies
de
●isle
at
Lions
.
Then
one
of
Magdalenes
corps
at
Vezelè
by
Auxerna
,
and
another
at
S.
Maximnis
in
Provence
.
Likewise
the
bodies
of
the
three
wise
men
of
the
East
,
both
at
Milan
,
and
Cologne
S.
Denises
at
S.
Denis
in
France
,
and
at
Regesbourgh
in
Almaine
,
S.
Anthonies
at
Arles
and
at
Vienna
,
S.
Petronels
daughter
vnto
S.
Peter
at
Rome
,
and
at
Mans
in
the
Iacobins
Covent
:
S.
Susannas
at
Rome
and
at
Tholose
:
S.
Hilaires
at
Poitiers
,
&
in
two
other
churches
▪
the
one
in
that
which
the
Canons
of
that
place
dedicated
vnto
him
,
&
the
other
in
the
Monkes
Church
at
Sella
:
moreouer
,
S.
Honorats
bodie
at
Arles
,
and
in
the
I
le
of
Lyrnis
nere
vnto
Anti●ou
:
S.
Gilses
in
a
towne
in
Languedoc
,
which
beareth
his
name
,
and
at
Tholose
:
S.
Williams
at
an
Abbey
in
Languedoc
called
S.
William
vppon
the
desert
,
and
in
a
towne
in
Anssoy
called
Ecrichen
:
S.
Ferrcels
at
Vses
in
Languedoc
&
al
Breienda
in
Auvergne
:
and
S.
Longins
transformed
from
a
speare
by
a
monstrous
metamorphesie
into
a
blinde
man
,
both
in
our
Ladies
church
de
l'isle
by
Lions
,
and
at
Mantoua
in
Italie
.
Vpon
others
they
bestowe
three
bodies
,
as
to
S.
Matthias
,
to
Lazarus
,
to
S.
Gervis
,
to
S.
Protis
,
and
to
S.
Wolfe
.
For
they
shew
the
corps
of
S.
Matthias
at
Rome
,
at
Padova
and
at
Trier
.
S.
Lazuruses
,
at
Marseille
,
at
Authun
,
and
at
Avalon
:
S.
Gervises
and
S.
Protises
at
Milan
,
at
Brisac
,
and
at
Bysanson
:
S.
Wolfes
at
Lyons
,
at
Senes
and
at
Ausserre
.
To
some
others
they
attribute
foure
,
as
to
S.
Sebastian
whereof
the
one
is
nigh
vnto
Narbonna
,
in
the
place
of
his
nativitie
,
the
second
at
Rome
in
S.
Laurences
Church
,
the
third
at
Soissons
,
and
the
fourth
at
Piligni
neare
vnto
Nantes
.
They
attribute
to
Matthias
foure
heads
,
whereof
one
is
to
bee
seene
at
Padoua
,
an
other
at
Tryer
,
and
the
other
two
at
Rome
:
and
also
seaven
armes
,
three
at
Rome
,
two
at
Tryer
,
and
two
at
Padoua
.
To
S.
Andrew
,
three
heads
,
one
at
Thoulouse
,
and
other
at
Melphe
,
and
the
third
at
Rome
:
and
fiue
armes
,
two
at
Thoulouse
,
two
at
Melphe
,
and
one
at
Rome
:
then
fiue
feete
,
one
at
Awcon
in
Provence
,
two
at
Thoulouse
and
the
other
two
at
Melphe
.
To
S.
Barthelmew
fiue
handes
,
one
at
Pisa
,
two
at
Rome
,
and
two
in
the
kingdome
of
Naples
.
To
S.
Phillip
three
feete
,
one
at
Rome
,
and
two
at
Thoulouse
.
To
S.
Stephen
two
heads
,
one
at
Arles
,
an
other
in
his
owne
Church
at
Rome
.
To
S.
Laurence
three
armes
,
two
at
Rome
in
his
owne
church
another
in
the
church
surnamed
Palisperna
.
To
S.
Anthonie
fiue
knees
,
one
in
S.
Augustins
Church
of
Albi
,
two
at
Arles
,
and
two
at
Vienna
.
To
S.
Sebastian
twelue
armes
,
one
at
Mombrison
in
Forest
,
an
other
at
S.
Servins
de
Tholose
,
an
other
at
Case-Dieu
in
Auvergne
an
other
at
Angers
,
two
at
Soissons
,
two
at
Piligni
,
two
in
the
place
where
he
was
borne
,
and
two
at
Rome
.
To
S.
Lambert
two
heads
,
one
at
Tryer
,
and
an
other
at
Leige
.
To
S.
Anne
fiue
heads
,
one
at
Lions
,
an
other
at
Apt
in
Provence
,
the
third
at
S.
Annes
in
Turingue
,
the
fourth
at
Duran
in
Iuilliers
,
and
the
fifth
at
Trier
.
To
S.
Vrsell
two
,
one
at
S.
Iohn
Angeliques
,
an
other
at
Cologne
.
Likewise
to
S.
Hilarie
two
,
one
with
his
Corps
at
Venise
,
the
other
separated
from
his
bodie
at
Cologne
.
Moreover
,
they
shew
the
blood
of
Christ
in
so
many
places
,
and
in
so
many
goble●s
,
that
on
maye
plainely
see
,
they
mock
at
the
effusion
of
the
most
precious
bloode
of
our
Redeemer
,
and
willingly
are
ignorant
,
that
the
bloode
of
Christ
could
not
bee
sheade
in
such
an
abundance
,
as
th●y
showe
,
in
diverse
of
their
Chur●hes
,
neither
was
it
taken
vp
so
fluently
,
by
some
of
the
Apostles
,
or
friends
of
Christ
,
when
his
hands
and
fe●te
were
nailed
,
and
his
breast
wounded
with
the
push
of
the
speare
.
To
conclude
,
I
could
heare
speake
of
the
multiplication
of
the
virgin
Maries
milke
,
through
the
craft
of
these
Alcumists
,
of
her
smockes
,
kerchiefes
,
phillits
,
girdles
,
gownes
,
pantofles
,
combes
,
Needles
,
Deskes
,
Linnen
,
pictures
,
and
jewells
:
Likewise
,
of
the
garments
of
Christ
,
of
his
teares
,
of
the
Cupp
,
out
of
which
hee
dranke
with
his
Disciples
,
of
the
linnen
girdle
,
wherewith
hee
girded
himself
when
hee
washed
their
feete
,
of
his
purple
garment
,
of
his
speare
,
which
wounded
his
side
,
of
the
dice
which
in
those
daies
were
not
in
request
,
of
the
stone
pichers
of
Cana
in
Galile
:
of
the
miraculous
Loanes
wherewith
our
Saviour
fed
fiue
thousand
persons
,
of
his
garment
without
seame
,
of
the
reede
which
they
put
into
his
handes
in
steade
of
a
Scepter
,
of
the
spunge
wherewith
they
put
gal
into
his
mouth
,
of
the
Crown
of
Thornes
they
set
vpon
his
head
,
of
the
pillar
whervnto
(
according
to
their
tradition
)
they
bound
him
to
scourg
him
,
of
the
Staires
of
the
Sessions-house
of
Pontius
Pilate
,
besprinckled
with
the
drops
of
the
bloode
which
fell
from
his
body
.
In
like
manner
,
of
the
bones
,
ashes
,
garments
,
chaines
,
and
other
reliques
of
the
Apostles
and
Martyrs
of
Christ
:
but
who
is
able
to
number
vp
all
the
inventions
of
the
olde
raggs
found
out
in
the
shopps
of
the
brocards
of
the
Romane
church
?
For
albeit
Calvin
hath
made
a
booke
expressely
against
them
,
yet
he
confesseth
therein
,
that
the
number
of
them
is
innumerable
.
I
entreat
therefore
the
Reader
to
content
himself
at
this
present
with
the
proofs
of
these
brasen-fac'd
inventors
of
reliques
,
which
I
haue
vttered
,
and
to
consider
them
without
passion
.
By
meanes
whereof
,
I
assure
my selfe
hee
will
judge
,
that
wee
haue
just
reason
,
to
haue
in
abhomination
these
deceiuers
of
the
ignorant
,
and
to
hold
the
adoration
of
their
reliques
for
a
heathenish
superstition
and
Idolatrie
,
condemned
and
forbidden
by
the
Lord
,
and
not
to
be
tollerated
by
those
whose
eyes
God
hath
opened
to
see
the
abuses
thereof
.
FINIS
.