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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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1Constantine the Emperor kept a coū cell at Constantinople, in the which were present a great number of godly Bishops, and other learned men: where it was likewise decreed, that Images should be cast out of Churches, and by no means be suffered in such places, as christen men resort unto for to pray ⟨p. 89⟩unto their Lord God. In the year, &c. 739, Sigesb. P. Aemilus. Pantal.
1Constantine the Emperour kept a coū cell at Constantinople, in the which were present a greate number of godly Bishops, and other learned men: where it was lykewyse decreed, that Images should be cast out of Churches, and by no meanes be suffred in such places, as christen men resorte vnto for to praye ⟨p. 89⟩vnto their Lorde God. In the yere, &c. 739, Sigesb. P. Aemilus. Pantal.
- 1Constantine the Emperor.Constātine the Emperoure.
The noble and Godly Emperors Valens and Theodosius made a law,1 that no man should make or cause to be made any Image of our Saviour Christ, neither by painting, nor by graving, nor yet by any other way, but that wheresoever any such Image should be found, it should utterly be taken away and destroyed. And whosoever would attempt to do contrary to this their act, they appointed certain grievous punishments to be executed upon the transgressors and breakers thereof, as a law grounded both upon the word of God, and upon the decrees and constitutions of the most worthy ancient Emperors and reverend bishops. Petrus Crinitus. Lib. 9. de honestae disciplina.