A07146:1213
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Certain forms of Absolution.
Certayne fourmes of Absolution.
OUR Lord Jesus Christ, which hath full power to absolve, he mought absolve thee, And I by the authority of him, & of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of our Mother holy Church, and by ⟨image 257⟩the authority that is committed unto me in this behalf, as much as I can, and am bound to absolve thee, do first of all absolve thee from the bond of the lesser excommunication, if thou be fallen into it. I absolve thee also from the fault of company keeping with excommunicate persons, if thou have need: and by the same authority I absolve thee from all thy since, mortal, criminal, and venial, being confessed unto me. I absolve thee also from all other sins forgotten, confessed, committed, and neglected, as much as I can, & so far as my duty is, in the virtue of our Lord Jesus Christs passion, and in the blessing of the father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. AMEN. And the very passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, & the merits of all he Saints and she Saints, and all the passions of the holy Martyrs, and the suffrages of the church Militant, and the remissions of the same, and also the pardons, prayers, & pilgrimages, & whatsoever good deeds besides all other faithful Christians have wrought: Again, the fastings, alms deeds, and the works of mercy ⟨p. 229⟩which thou haste done, or shalt do, or intendest to do: moreover whatsoever tribulation thou haste patiently suffered: all this I give unto thee for the satisfaction of this penance that I have enjoined thee: and unto the furtherance and help of the remission and forgiveness of all thy since, and unto the deliverance from the pains of hell and purgatory, which thou haste deserved for thy since: and unto the obtaining of grace in this present world, and everlasting life in the world to come. Amen.