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…

Name: The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…
Author: Thomas Becon

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.

Thomas Becon 1512–1567London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563

[28], 144, 147-266 leaves : port. · 109k words · STC 1755 · ESTC S101368

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The Relics of Rome. › Of Fryers, and of the diversity of that sect. › Of Dominikes order, called, black Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Fryers, and of the diuersitie of that secte. › Of Dominikes order, called, blacke Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

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Of Dominikes order, called, black Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

Of Dominikes order, called, blacke Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

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Pope Innocent the third reigning Dominic Calaguritane a Spaniard, began this order of Friars preachers. This Dominic was first a regular canon, & because he could not suffer to have a superior, and was also weary of the Cloister, he invented a new fraternity, named of his own name, Dominicans. Their order is with out all shame to beg, as the Carmelites, and forsake little by wilful poverty, that they may obtain much & to wax rich of other mens labours, they themselves being idle lazy loitering lubbers, & unprofitable clods of the earth. Our Lady s. Mary (as they fain) ⟨image 98⟩even of love that she bare to this holy order of sweet S. Dominic, devised the habit,¹ which the fryers of that order use at this day and delivered it to S. Dominic with her own hands, commanding him and all his brethren for ever after to wear the like. Their cote is white their cope & coal is black The new guise of their vestu•e made Innocent Innocentius to wonder. But pope Honorius the third by his bull honourably admitted the black order of the black fryers, In the year of our Lord. 1220. And Gregory the ninth put the matter all out of doubt, canonised Dominic, and by his bull under lead allowed him for a saint.² Of this Dominic's mother they tell that when she was with child and had Dominic in her womb, she dreamed that she had a wolf in her belly: which as I think, signifieth, that both he & all cloisterers by their profession are none other thing than wolves, devouring not only the substance of men, but also the souls of men by their hypocrisy & false doctrine according to this saying of Christ,

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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…

Of Dominikes order, called, black Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

Of Dominikes order, called, blacke Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

Of the barefooted Friars otherwise called Minorites or Grey Friars.

Of the barefooted Friers otherwise called Minorites or Graye Friers.

Of the Friars observants.

Of the Friers obseruantes.

Here follow the seven privileges, which the Franciscans feign to be given of god to S. Francis for the advancement of his order.

Here follow the seuen priuileges, which the Fraunciscanes faine to be geuen of god to S. Fraunces for the aduauncemēt of his order.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of Dominikes order, called, black Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

Of Dominikes order, called, blacke Fryers or the Fryers Preachers.

Of the barefooted Friars otherwise called Minorites or Grey Friars.

Of the barefooted Friers otherwise called Minorites or Graye Friers.

Of the Friars observants.

Of the Friers obseruantes.

Here follow the seven privileges, which the Franciscans feign to be given of god to S. Francis for the advancement of his order.

Here follow the seuen priuileges, which the Fraunciscanes faine to be geuen of god to S. Fraunces for the aduauncemēt of his order.

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