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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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Of the order of the Jesuits.
Of the order of the Iesuites.
Pope Urban the fifth greatly allowed the order of the Jesuits, and gave unto it many great and singular privileges, commanding the Monks of that order to wear a white kirtle & a russet coal, and that they should be called of all men Clerici Apostolici, that is to say, the Apostles clerks. This order of the Jesuits ⟨p. 63⟩was the invention of Joannes Columbinus in Senna a city of Etruria, they were at the beginning no priests nor consecrated persons, but were men of the lay sort, given and addict willingly and freely to prayer and to labour, getting their meat with the travail of their ham des and with the sweat of their brows living as it were in common after the example of Christ and of his disciples. They are called Jesuits, because the name of Jesus should be often in their mouth. In the year, &c. 1368. Phil. Berg. Libro. Germ.
POpe Vrban the fifth greatly alowed the order of the Iesuites, and gaue vnto it many great and singuler priueleges, commaundyng the Monkes of that order to weare a white kyrtle & a russet coule, and that they should be called of all men Clerici Apostolici, that is to saye, the Apostels clearkes. This order of the Iesuites ⟨p. 63⟩was the inuention of Ioannes Columbinus in Sena a city of Hethruria, they wer at the beginning no priestes nor consecrated persons, but wer men of the lay sorte, geuen and addicte willingly and freely to prayer and to labour, getting their meat with the trauail of their hā des and with ye sweat of their browes liuing as it were in common after the example of Christ and of his disciples. They are called Iesuites, bicause the name of Iesus should be often in theyr mouth. In the yere, &c. 1368. Phil. Berg. Libro. Germ.