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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 Priests.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Priestes.
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Pope Boniface the first instituted,1 that no man should be made priest before he be, xxx. years old. For Christ saith he, was thirty years old before he toke on him the office of preaching. In the year, &c. 425. Sigebert. Sabel. Chron.
Pope Boniface ye first instituted,1 that no man shuld be made priest before he be, xxx. yeres olde. For Christ sayth he, was thirtie yeres old before he toke on him ye office of preaching. In the yeare, &c. 425. Sigebert. Sabel. Chron.
Pope Zechariah notwithstanding made a decree, that if necessity requireth, priests should not only be made at .xxx. years old but also at .xxv. In the year, &c. 752. Dist. 79. Cap. Si triginta.
Pope Zacharias notwithstādyng made a decree, yt if necessitye requireth, priestes shoulde not onely be made at .xxx. yeres olde but also at .xxv. In the yere, &c. 752. Dist. 79. Cap. Si triginta.
Pope Siricius, 1of whom we spake afore decreed, that all those men that have been twice married, or else have married a widow to wife, should by no means be received unto the order of priesthood. Isidor. Plot, Albert. Krantz. Pantal.