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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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Of the Pope, and of his usurped power and feigned authority.
Of the Pope, and of his vsurped power and fayned authoritie.
Pope Boniface the third through great and earnest suit (although many good and Godly learned men resisted him in this behalf,1 utterly condemning this his ambition and Luciferlike pride in exalting and lifting up himself above his fellow Bishops, and challenging unto him that Supremacy and authority, which the holy Scripture in no place giveth him neither had any of his predecessors the Bishops of Rome tofore enjoyed the same nor once desired it, but rather both written and spoken against such usurped power, as we may see in the writings of Pope Gregory the first against John Patriarch of Constantinople,2 which attempted the like wicked enterprise, but was resisted) to Phocas the Emperor, at the last obtained of him, that he and his successors for ever after should be taken for the chief ⟨image 31⟩bishop and supreme head of the universal Church of Christ throughout the world:3 and that the Church of Rome from that day forward should be called, and so admitted and received the chief and principal head Church of the whole world: Again, that the Church of Rome should be in subjection to none other Church, but that all Churches universal should be obedient and in subjection unto it. For until that time the Church of Constantinople was counted the highest and of greatest authority because of the imperial see in that city. This thing was brought to pass about the year of our Lord .vi.C.vii. Flatina. Christianus Massaeus. Henricus Pantaleon. Paulus Dia•onus. Anselmus Rid. Polichronicon. Albertus Krantz. Abbas urspergensis. Hermannus Contractus. &c