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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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Pope Gregory the first after that he was appointed Bishop of Rome,1 commanded, that all the Idols and Images of the Heathen should utterly be defaced, their heads cut of, and their other members in all points mangled and disgraced, and so in fine destroyed, that no occasion of Idolatry might afterward be given. In the year of our Lord. 590. Joan. Laziard. Chronica.
Pope Gregory the fyrst after that he was appoynted Byshop of Rome,1 cō maunded, that all the Idolles and Images of the Heathen should vtterlye be defaced, theyr heades cutte of, and theyr other members in all poyntes mangled and disgraced, and so in fine destroyed, that no occasion of Idolatry mighte afterwarde be geuen. In the yeare of our Lorde. 590. Ioan. Laziard. Chronica.
- 1P. Gregory the first.
1Pope Constantine the second, whom the seditious, tyrannical and superstitious papists did afterward violently ⟨p. 90⟩depose, cruelly thrust into a monastery as into a vile and stinking prison, and most unmercifully put out his eyes, commanded that no Christian should worship any Image either of God or of any Saint,2 or invocate or call upon the Virgin Mary, or any other saint in heaven with their prayers, but worship God in spirit and truth, and call upon his glorious name through Jesus Christ our alone Mediator, Advocate and Intercessor. In the year, &c. 769. Joan. Laziard.