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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 Temples or Churches.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Temples or Churches.
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Of Temples or Churches.
Pope Sylvester bearing rule, Constantine the Emperor built diverse Churches for the Christians,1 & gave other liberty so to do, to the end, that so many as profess Christ, might openly and without any fear come together to pray & praise God, to hear the reading and Preaching of the holy Scriptures, to receive the blessed Sacraments, and to occupy ⟨image 107⟩themselves in such Godly and virtuous exercises, as God requireth of them in his Sacred word.2 For unto that time the Christians were so extremely persecuted of tyrants, that they had no certain public place to repair unto, but so many as professed Christ assembled themselves together privately, and praised God in hollow caves and dens for the fear of the unfaithful, as Laurentius Valla sayeth in hys book de donatione Constantini. In times paste, sayeth he, before the days of Constantine the great, the Christians had no Temples, but secrete and close places: holy little houses, but no great and gorgeous buildings: Chapels, no Temples: Oratories within private walls, no public and open Churches. In the year of our Lord. 315. Ranulphus. Cestrensis▪ Valla. Westmerus.
POpe Siluester bearing rule, Constantine the Emperour built diuerse Churches for the Christians,1 & gaue other libertie so to do, to the end, that so many as professe Christ, might openly and without any feare come together to praye & prayse God, to heare the readyng and Preachyng of the holy Scriptures, to receaue the blessed Sacramentes, and to occupye ⟨image 107⟩themselues in suche Godly and vertuous exercises, as God requyreth of them in hys Sacred worde.