A history of antient ceremonies containing an account of their rise and growth, their first entrance into the Church, and their gradual advancement to superstition therein.
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A history of antient ceremonies containing an account of their rise and growth, their first entrance into the Church, and their gradual advancement to superstition therein.
Author
Porrée, Jonas.
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London :: [s.n.],
1669.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Anno 950.
IT is recorded by William of Malmsbu∣ry,
that the belief both of the reality
and of the conversion of Signes, which
were by degrees foisted into this Age of
Ignorance and Barbarism, was vigorous∣ly
opposed, and that divers Questions
touching the same were agitated in Eng∣land;
one party explaining it one way,
the other quite another: Those who
held the Affirmative part, that they
might the more dextrously proselyte
their Adversaries, obtruded Prodigies
and Miracles, averring that in the room
of the Species, they saw a comely little
Infant, which was thrust into the mouths
of the Communicants instead of Bread;
that there was Blood found in the Cha∣lice;
that a (devout) Ass worshiped the
Hostie; and abundance of such Miracles,
••ut so gross & ridiculous, as that the bare
mentioning of them may suffice to dis∣cover
their impertinency and forgery:
Whereupon Gabriel Biel in his 51 Lesson
o•• the Canon of the Mass, observed not
a••iss, that those apparitions of flesh & blood
w••••rwith they entertained the people, might
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happen through Diabolical delusion, for de∣ceiving
of the simple, God permitting it
so to be.