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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07056	A compendious treatise in metre declaring the firste originall of sacrifice, and of the buylding of aultares and churches, and of the firste receauinge of the Christen fayth here in Englande by G.M.	Marshall, George, poet.	1554 (1554)	STC 17469; ESTC S112349	10,799	26

begonne in oure dayes Lyke to this scysme in this Realme neuer was With so great destruction to sone now alas Fiftene hundred yeares past we in writing find Synce Lucy was Kyng of Englande by kynde Whyche sent to the Pope called Elentherius That he woulde send or els sone come This Realme to cōuerte to holy Christendome Which sent Damian with his fellow Forganus Then was this Realme to Christ conuerted Which we agayne hath falsely subuerted Although frō Rome these preachers were sent To Christen this Realme by y ● Kinges consent Shoulde we therfore our fayth agayne denye Christ in Bethleē Iurie a poore citie was borne In stable amōg beastes y t fedde were with corne Should this dimynyshe his power or his glorie To gods pleasure wil hūble soules shuld 〈◊〉 To his workes wordes not against thē saye Trouble not thy braines thy faith for to skanne For God is a great God thou a symple man Yet is not in thy thought to searche oute his wysdome All thing of nothinge with his worde he made The bread eke his body when he the word sayd And so to remayne tyll he agayne come The Euagelistes Apostle of this doth recorde Saying take and eate the body of ouer Lord Vpon this Scripture Christes owne saying The sacrifice of the Masse toke the begynnyng The Apostles thē selfes the same hath begonne Iames Alpheus in the selfe same yeare Sayde Masse in Ierusalem as it doth appeare At the Penticost after Christes Ascention This is not newe thoughe foles surmyse Agaynst the Masse to counterfeyte lyes Iames the lesse in Ierusalem byshop did raigne Peter in Antioche in the East lādes certaine And so in Rome twenty yeares and fiue Andrewe to the Grekes in Constantinople did preache To Egeas Christ crucified he dyd well teache The lambe dayly offered and yet styll alyue These thre Apostles sayd Masse in their dayes Thoughe Satans satyllites agaynst it sayes When this Iames was made fyrst byshoppe of Ierusalem They ordeyned him ministers deacons seuen As the Actes of the Apostles dothe wel testyfie Stephen Philip procures Timō Permenas With the other also Nichanor and Nicolas Whych ministred to the people wel worthely This was ordeined by y e Apostles whole cōsent According to the auctoritie that God them sent Many nowe dothe muse and fondely can chatte Where Rome this auctoritie fyrst them gatte Synce thay are but men euen as we be This auctoritie to y e place forsoth was not geuē The holy gost to y e Apostles was sent frō heauē Them to ende we with power and auctorytie Whych ordeined by lotte the Apostle Mathias To be on the stede of the traytoure Iudas Thus had the Apostles power as you may see To ordeine in y e churche ministers of eche degre The people to gods lore and rules for to call In al publike weales wher good order is skant There loue rest and ryches doth euer want And sodenly are trapped in daungerous thrall That realme or monarche can not long endure Where good order doth want you may be sure The shyppe without guyde longe can not saile Neyther can the puisantes of men preuayle Withoute good rule and order decente In tyme all thynges hadde their begynnyng And so in tyme shall returne to their endyng For so it is ordeyned by gods iust consent We may not impute it as a faulte or cryme That y e Apostles and fathers ordeined in their tyme When faith in England beganne first to springe The Priestes in the churches did dayly Masse syng And so dyd contynue and styll holde an Tyll at the last as the storyes dothe tell A kynge here dyd raygne that faithe dyd expel Dioclusion by name that slewe saynt Albon This man is holden as a martyr full good And the other a tirant cruel and woode Gayus Decius Herode and cruel Hero Persecuted y e churches with other tirantes mo To kill and to slea was all their whole delyte Peter and Andrewe on the crosse they spredde Iames they slewe and Paule lost his hedde Thus at goddes seruantes they hadde despite Like as the Perselites doth nowe in our tyme Skanne of their faith and against it time When Dioclusian and Maximilian forsoth dyd raygne There was .xvij. thowsande of volye martyrs slayne So cruel was these tirantes fayth to delaye That Peter and y e Apostles so sore was affrayd That in spelunkes caues there thei masse said Before the holy bretherne preuely eche daye Til Siluester came that bysshoppe ful good That buylded stone Aultares y t before was of woode Thys persecution helde on full as I wene The space of two hundreth yeres and syxetene Destroying the churche and good christianitie The holye places to goddes honor dedicate With heythen Maumentes they dyd maculate Thus fayth was turned to infidelitie This was forsoth a full pitious case To plucke downe Christ set satan in his place There was a bysshope that hyte by name Iue That came to England and in Deuenshere did aryue Which Christ the faith to y e people did preache He was the kinges sonne of Perse a good holy man Hutte hutte and yught where his decons then Which busied them selfes gods lore for to teach These men were buried in Huntyngdon shiere In a place called Slepe as y e story doth appeare Yet was not this realme fully conuerted Which was before by infidelitie subuerted Tyll Gregorye in Rome Pope was there He came into the markette as it by chaunce fel Where as he founde Englishe chylderne to sell Demaūding of what coūtrie nation they were Aunswere was made of Englande they be As Angles sayde Gregorye they seme to me Then sent to Augustine with good intent Which dyd aryue at Tanette in Kent The kynge and the subiectes he cōuerted there Then fayth agayne began for to sprynge Which then was receaued of subiectes kynge As in the Englishe Cronicles it doth appeare Why should we at Rome nowe haue despyte That chaunged our darkenesse agayne to light Ethelbertus was then kynge as I haue redde Berta hyte the Quene that much desired To here Augustine preache gods worde deuine Then dyd it chaunce and folowe by successe That the people conuerted bothe more and lesse To Christes fayth and holy doctrine Then began Kynges Churches to buylde Which were before with Idoles defyled Then came to raygnyng by succession in time Noble kynge Edgar Oswoulde and Edwyne That found rebuylded mo then fortie abbeies That were before by the Saxones destroyed And eke by infideles that the fayth denied To counte some by name as stories sayes Whinchester Wylton Brought and Ramsey Glastonbury Abyngton and also Thorney Edmund Edward ful noble kinges thei were Which buylded worthely for no cost did spare To erecte such places to gods honor and