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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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and defile not your selves with their idols:1 For I am the Lord your god. But walk in my statutes, keep my laws,2 and do them, &c. All forefathers walking in Gods ordinances are most studiously and diligently to be heard and followed: All other are to be rejected, & refused, although outwardly glistering never so much with the shine of holiness and virtue, & commended for straitness of life and abundance of good works. Christ is the scope, whereunto we must direct all our doings. If any of our forefathers dissent him,3 they shoot at a wrong mark, and we must bid them farewell in the plain fields, & have nothing to do with them, be they never so old and ancient, as Saint Cyprian saith: That Christ alone ought to be heard:4 The father even from heaven testifieth, saying: This is my well beloved son, in whom I have great delight: Hear ye him. Wherefore if Christ alone be to be heard, we ought not to attend, mark, & take heed, what any man that hath been before us. thought good to be done, but what he did, which is before all, that is to say, Christ.
and defile not your selues with their idols:1 For I am the Lord your god. But walke in my statuts, kepe my lawes,2 and doe thē, &c. All forefathers walking in Gods ordinaunces are most studiously and diligētly to be heard and followed: All other are to be reiected, & refused, although outwardly glystering neuer so muche with the shyne of holynesse and vertue, & commended for streightnesse of lyfe and aboundaunce of good workes. Christ is the scope, wherunto we must directe all our doinges. If any of our forefathers dissēt him,3 they shote at a wrong marke, and we must byd them farewell in the playne fieldes, & haue nothyng to do with them, be they neuer so olde and auncient, as Saint Cyprian sayth: That Christ alone ought to be heard: