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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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1Saint Cyprian that blessed Martyr saith, that God is not the hearer of the ⟨p. 118⟩voice, but of the heart: neither is he to be admonished with exclamations and outcries, which seeth the thoughts, as the Lord proveth and saith: What do ye think wickedness in your heart: And in an other place: All congregations shall know, that I am the searcher of the reins and heart, that is to say, of the inward man. Cyprian in orat. dom.
1Sainct Cipriane that blessed Martyr sayth, that God is not the hearer of the ⟨p. 118⟩voyce, but of the heart: neither is he to be admonished with exclamations and outcries, whiche seeth the thoughtes, as the Lorde proueth and sayth: What doe ye thynke wyckednesse in youre heart: And in an other place: All congregations shall knowe, that I am the searcher of the raynes and hearte, that is to say, of the inwarde man. Ciprian in orat. dom.
- 1S. Cyprian.S. Cipriā.
Saint Ambrose also saith:1 It is with out doubt a great incredulity and unfaithfulness to think thus of the power of God, that thou canst not be heard, except thou criest out. Let thy work cry: let thy faith cry: let thy mind cry: let thy passions and sufferings cry: let thy blood, as the blood of holy Abel, cry,2 whereof God said to Cain: The voice of thy brothers blood cry unto me. For he heareth in secrete, which maketh clean in secrete. We can not hear man except he speaketh unto us: but unto god, not words but thoughts do speak. Lib. de Caim & Abel.