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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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Durandus saith, that bells be of such virtue,1 that when they be rung, they stir men to devotion, they preserve the fruits of the earth, they keep both the minds and the bodies of the faithful from all danger, they put to flight the hosts of our enemies, & dispatch all the subtleties of our evil willers they cause the boisterous hail, the sharp ••ormes, the violent tempests, the terrible thunderings, the fearful lightnings, and fierce winds to cease, they drive away also all wicked spirits and ⟨p. 82⟩devils. Ration. di. off.
Durandus sayth, that bels be of suche vertue,1 that when they be roung, they stirre men to deuotion, they preserue the frutes of the earth, they kepe both the mindes and the bodies of the faithfull from al daunger, they put to flight the hostes of our enemyes, & dispatche all the suttelties of oure euell willers they cause the boysterous hayle, ye sharp ••ormes, the violent tempestes, the terrible thundringes, the fearefull lyghtnings, and fearce windes to cease, they driue away also al wicked spirites and ⟨p. 82⟩deuills. Ration. di. off.
- 1The wonderful virtue of bells.The wonderful vertue of bels.
Pope Vitalian brought in Organs to make the people merry.1 In the year of our Lord. 653. Chronic. Volat. Platina. &c.