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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 Bishops.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Byshops.
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Pope Evaristus made a law, that without exceeding great necessity a Bishop might no more forsake his church, than the husband his wife.1 For it is written, ⟨image 51⟩saith he: he that seeth a woman & lusteth after in his hart he hath commit adultery. In the year of our Lord. 110. Lib. Concil.
Pope Euaristus made a law, yt without exceding great necessitye a Bishop might no more forsake hys church, thā the husband his wife.1 For it is writtē, ⟨image 51⟩saith hee: he that seeth a woman & lusteth after in his hart he hath commitadultery. In the yeare of our Lord. 110. Lib. Concil.
- 1Math. v.
1Pope Innocent, the sixth made a decree that bishops and all other ecclesiastical persons should repair home unto their own houses and cures, maintain hospitality for the relief of the poor and suffer no idle nor loitering lubbers to remain in their houses, but only nourish such as are virtuously occupied, and apply themselves diligently to the study of the holy Scripture and to the reading of the ancient writers, that they might afterward serve in the church of Christ. In the year. &c. 1343 Chron. Joannes Stella.2
1Pope Innocent, the sixt made a decree that bishops and all other ecclesiastical persons should repair home vnto their owne houses and cures, maintain hospitalitie for the relief of the poore and suffer no idle nor loytering lubbers to remayne in their houses, but only norishe suche as are vertuously occupied, and apply themselues diligently to the study of the holy Scripture and to the readyng of the auncient wryters, that they mighte afterwarde serue in the church of Christe. In the yeare. &c. 1343 Chron. Ioannes Stella.