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…

Name: The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…
Author: Thomas Becon

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.

Thomas Becon 1512–1567London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563

[28], 144, 147-266 leaves : port. · 109k words · STC 1755 · ESTC S101368

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The Relics of Rome. › Of Cardinals.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Cardinalls.

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Of Cardinals.

Of Cardinalls.

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¹Pope Marcellus ordained in the city of Rome .xv. Cardinals for to baptise such as were converted from Paganism unto Christianism, & to bury the martyrs, which suffered death for Gods truth. In the year, &c. ⟨p. 19⟩Christ. Massae. Polichron.

¹POpe Marcellus ordayned in the citie of Rome .xv. Cardinalls for to baptise such as wer conuerted frō Paganisme vnto Christianisme, & to burye the martirs, whiche suffred death for Gods truth. In the yere, &c. ⟨p. 19⟩Christ. Massae. Polichron.

1Why Cardinals were ordained.Why Cardinals wer ordayned.

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Pope Sylvester the first appointed the College of Cardinals to beautify and to set forth the honour and dignity of the church:¹ unto the which Cardinals (as the papists feign) the Emperor Constantine gave that same authority and preeminence,² that the honourable order of the sage & prudent Senators of Rome tofore had.

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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…

Of Cardinals.

Of Cardinalls.

Of Bishops.

Of Byshops.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of Cardinals.

Of Cardinalls.

Of Bishops.

Of Byshops.

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