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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 Heretics.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Heretykes.
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1Pope Pelagius the first not content with this former punishment, made a decree, that all heretics and Schismatics, with all such as be contumaciter disobedient to holy Churches ordinances should be put to death by the ⟨p. 215⟩secular power. Provided alway, that the Popish bloody butcherlyke Bishops with their wolvish wicked officers and Antichristian adherents do first of all persecute them, imprison them, accite them Coram nobis, 2accuse them, con damn them, and afterward according to their devilish decrees commit them to the secular power and temporal magistrates, as unto their butchers & hang men to dispatch them out of the way either by fire, sword, or halter. For these holy and charitable Fathers cry out with their forefathers and Popelike predecessours:3 Non licet nobis interficere quenquam. It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. In the year of our Lord. 552.24. q. cap. 5. Relegentes. Angl. Chron. Joan. Laziard.
1Pope Pelagius the fyrst not content with thys former punyshement, made a decree, that all heretikes and Schismatikes, with al such as be contumaciter disobediente to holy Churches ordinaunces should be put to death by the ⟨p. 215⟩seculare power. Prouided alway, that the Popishe bloudy butcherlyke Byshops with their woluishe wicked officers and Antichristian adherētes doe first of all persecute thē, emprison thē, accite them Coram nobis, 2accuse them, cō demne them, and afterward accordyng to their deuilishe decrees commit them to the secular power and temporal magistrates, as vnto their butchers & hāg men to dispatche them out of the waye either by fyre, swearde, or halter. For these holy and charitable Fathers crye out with their forefathers and Popelike predecessours:3