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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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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.2
- 1A decree worthy to be observed What servants bishops and priests ought to have.A decree worthye to be obserued What seruaunts bishops and priestes ought to haue.
- 2Physician heal thy self.Phisition heale thy selfe.
Pope Gregory the eleventh said to a certain bishop being absent from his bishopric: Thou bishop why goest thou not home to thy bishopric? The bishop answered again with a stout courage: And thou Pope, which callest thy self father of fathers, and the chief of all bishops which oughtest also to give example of doing well to other Bishops, prelates and priests: