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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 Innocent the third bearing rule In the year. &c. 1215. the Council Lateran was celebrated, where were present two Patriarchs, one of Hierusalē, an other of Constantinople .lxx. Archbishops Metropolitans .iiii.C. Bishops, xii. Abbots .viii.C. Conventual Priors: the Legates of the Greek & Roman Empire, besides the Orators and Ambassadors of the kings of Jerusalem, of France, of Spain, of England, and of Cyprus. In this Council it was decreed,2 that all heretics & so many as did in any point resist the Catholic faith, should be condemned as Schismatics, and delivered to the secular power, or their Bailiffs or Sheriffs, to be punished accordingly: and that if they were priests or of the Clergy,3 they should first of all be regraded from their orders, and afterward ⟨p. 217⟩committed to the temporal officers.4 As for their goods the Laity shall not meddle with them, but they shall be applied to the use of those Churches, of whom they received their stipends or wages. But if they be lay men, to give them over straightways to the secular power to be punished accordingly, and their goods confiscate.
1Pope Innocent the third bearing rule In the yeare. &c. 1215. the Councell Laterane was celebrated, where were present two Patriarches, one of Hierusalē, an other of Constātinople .lxx. Archbishops Metropolitanes .iiii.C. Byshops, xii. Abbottes .viii.C. Cōuentual Prioures: the Legates of the Greke & Romane Empyre, besides the Oratours and Embassadours of the kings of Ierusalem, of Fraunce, of Spayne, of England, and of Cyprus. In thys Councell it was decreed,2 that all heretikes & so many as did in any point resiste the Catholike faith, should be condemned as Schismatikes, and deliuered to the secular power, or their Bayliffes or Shierifs, to be punished accordingly: and that if they were priests or of the Clergye,