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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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In the same Council it was also determined,1 that if any persons were found only suspect of heresy, except that they be able thoroughly to purge & to clear themselves, should be accursed: and that if they so continue by the space of one whole year, that they should be condemned as heretics.
In the same Councel it was also determined,1 that if any persons were founde onely suspecte of heresie, except that they be able thorowly to purge & to clere themselues, should be accursed: and that if they so continue by the space of one whole yeare, that they should be condemned as heretikes.
- 1Suspect of heresy.Suspect of heresie.
Moreover in that Council it was also decreed,1 that the secular powers, of whatsoever office or degree they be, should be admonished and charged, yea and if need be, enforced and compelled by the ecclesiastical censure (if they will be reputed and taken for faithful men) openly to swear for the defence of the faith, that they shall to the uttermost of their power faithfully and diligently root out & destroy in all their kingdoms, ⟨image 246⟩dominions and lands, all such persons,2 as the Catholic Church hath condemned for heretics: so that every person receiving any office, dignity, or promotion either Ecclesiastical or temporal, shall be bound to observe this decree, concerning this dispatch of heretics. But if so be, that any temporal lord or ruler, being required and admonished of the church so to do, shall neglect to purge his land of those heretics: that then every such person or persons so offending, shall be excommunicate by the Metropolitan and other Bishops of that province. It was further determined in the aforesaid Council, that if that Lord or Ruler do refuse by the space of one hole year to satisfy and to accomplish the decrees of the aforesaid Council, that then signification should be made thereof to the highest bishop, that is to say, to the Pope, that he may denounce,