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 the barefooted Friars otherwise called Minorites or Grey Friars.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Fryers, and of the diuersitie of that secte. › Of the barefooted Friers otherwise called Minorites or Graye Friers.

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Of the barefooted Friars otherwise called Minorites or Grey Friars.

Of the barefooted Friers otherwise called Minorites or Graye Friers.

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Pope Honorius the third bearing rule Francis an Italian devised the order of the barefooted friars. He was first a merchant and a worldly man. Afterward he determined to forsake all worldly things and to follow Christ,¹ in so much, that when he was well shod, and girded with a double girdle, he remembering these words of Christ (possess neither two coats,² no shoes, nor yet staff, &c. and who so forsaketh not all things, cannot be my disciple) cast all thing away from him, shoes, girdle, &c. so that he went barefooted, and girded himself with a cord and continently began this order in the Mount Appoeninus, in a place named commonly Laverna, gathering unto him many men, which took on them the same religion and are called of barefooted Francis, barefooted Franciscans. ⟨image 99⟩They are named also Minores, ³of the humility and lowliness of hart that they should have.⁴ They write, that this Francis was so strait to himself, that to chastise his flesh in winter season, he would cover his body with ice & snow. He called poverty always his Lady, and loved rather to hear himself reviled, than praised. He kept nothing over night, His heart desired martyrdom, whereupon he went into Syria to the Soldan,⁵ which received him honourably: whereby it is to be thought, that surely he told him not the truth. For truth is seldom welcome in courts and noble mens houses. I will here pass over the fable, how Christ and his Saints did mark him with the five wounds. After that he had thus chastised his flesh by the space of eighteen years, he dyed at Asia, and was afterward canonised and admitted for a Saint by Pope Gregory the ninth. Lib. Germ. Polidor. Chro.

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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 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.

Of the Friarly order of Mary's servants.

Of the Frierly order of Maries seruantes.

The author

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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.

Of the Friarly order of Mary's servants.

Of the Frierly order of Maries seruantes.

The author

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