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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.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.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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The Relics of Rome. › Of Purgatory.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Purgatorye.
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After that the Papists had thus feigned Purgatory and the most horrible & dreadful pains thereof: they thought it also good to devise some thing to relieve these pains and to ease the bitter torments which the silly souls suffer in that most grievous fire of purgatory: by this their devise nothing doubting but that no small advantage should rise unto them,1 which in deed hath had hitherto fortunate success. Diverse invented diverse remedies against these fiery torments: Which ⟨p. 201⟩thing hath been brought to pass by the constitutions & ordinances of men partly, as we may see in the Councils Florentine and Constantiense: and partly by the books and writings of the Sophistical Papists: Some of their devises here to recite, I think it not unfitting nor out of the way.
After that the Papistes had thus fained Purgatory and the moste horrible & dredeful paynes therof: they thought it also good to deuise some thing to relieue these paynes and to ease the bitter tormentes whiche the sely soules suffer in that most greuous fyre of purgatorye: by this their deuise nothyng doubting but that no small aduauntage shoulde ryse vnto them,1 whiche in dede hath had hitherto fortunate successe. Diuerse inuented diuerse remedies against these fyry tormēts: Which ⟨p. 201⟩thyng hath bene brought to passe by ye cōstitutions & ordinaūces of men partly, as we may see in ye Coūcels Florentine and Constantiense: and partly by the bookes and writings of the Sophisticall Papistes: Some of their deuyses here to recite, I thinke it not vnfitting nor out of the way.
- 1Remedies devised by the papists against the tormē •s of PurgatoryRemedies deuised by the papists agaynst the tormē •s of Purgatory