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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 Innocent the second decreed, that no man should strike a pr•est. For ⟨image 59⟩it is written,1 sayeth he: Touch not my anointed. If any man contrary to his commandment did presume to smite the anointed priest, he pronounced him excommunicate ipso facto and accursed, & that by no means he should be absolved (except he stood in danger of death) but only of the pope of Rome. In the year of our Lord. 11•1. Causa. 17. Quest, Si quis. Joan. Stella. Chron.
Pope Innocent the seconde decreed, that no man should strike a pr•est. For ⟨image 59⟩it is written,1 saieth he: Touche not my annointed. If anye manne contrarye to hys commaundemente didde presume to smite the annointed priest, he pronounced him excommunicate ipso facto and accursed, & that by no meanes he should be absolued (except he stoode in daunger of death) but only of ye pope of Rome. In the yeare of our Lorde. 11•1. Causa. 17. Quest, Si quis. Ioan. Stella. Chron.
- 1A priest striker is accu••ed. Psal 105.
Pope Evaristus enacted, that priests should not be disquieted,1 nor evil entreated of the laity, but that they should be had in high reverence and honour. In the year &c. 110. Isidor. Tem. 3. Conc. Polid. Pantaleon.