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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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Pope Leo, the ninth is not so grievous an enemy,1 to the marriage of priests, but that he granteth that priests have power to have wives and to lead them about with them, being moved with these words of Saint Paul: Have not we power to lead a sister to wife, as the other Apostles do, and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas.
Pope Leo, the ninth is not so greuoꝰ an enmy,1 to the mariage of priests, but that he graunteth that priestes haue power to haue wiues and to lead them aboute with them, being moued with these wordes of Saincte Paule: Haue not we power to lead a sister to wife, as the other Apostles doe, and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas.
Pope Innocent in his decretals,1 writeth, that those priests which have wives of their own after the manner of the country where they dwell, are grievously to be punished, if they do break their Wedlock.
Pope Innocent in his decretals,1 writeth, that those priests which haue wiues of their own after the maner of the coūtrey where they dwell, are greuouslye to bee punished, if they doe breake their Wedlocke.