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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 the Monastical apparel.The Reliques of Rome. › Of the Monasticall apparell.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of the Monastical apparel.
Of the Monasticall apparell.
IN times paste when with most earnest diligence I searched for the original & beginning of the monastical or monkish apparel, and could by no means find any thing thereof in writing: at the last I repaired unto the painters, & in the entries & porches of the friars, where for the most part a man may see the histories of ⟨image 106⟩both testaments painted & lively set forth in colours: I sought for the matter diligently. And when in all the old testament I could not find any of the Patriarchs, or of the priests, or of the Prophets, or of the Levites, no, nor yet Elijah himself, whom notwithstanding the Carmelites or white friars make their Patron & first founder of their Religion, to wear a coal, and to be clad with Monkish apparel• I went straightways unto the new testament. There I found Zachary, Simeon, John Baptist, Joseph, Christ, the Apostles, the Disciples, the Scribes, the Pharisees, the Bishops, Annas, Caiaphas, Herod, Pilate, and many other: but no where could I find or perceive the coal, or monkish habit. Examining once again more diligently even from the beginning all & singular things: out of hand even at the very beginning of the history in a manner, the devil appeared, & showed himself clad in a coal, even the very same devil, that tempted Christ in the desert or wilderness. I was exceeding glad, & rejoiced ⟨p. 77⟩beyond all measure, that I had found it in picture, which I could never find afore in scripture: I mean, that the devil was the first author, inventor, and finder, out of the coal and Monkish habit: of whom afterward I think verily, the other Monks and Fryers borrowed their cowls and disguised apparel set forth in diverse colours, some white, some black, some grey, some russet, some blew, some blouncket &c. or else peradventure they received and took the same as left unto them for inheritance from the devil their father. Cornelius Agrippa de incertitudine & vanitate scientiarum.