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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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Secondly, 1God hath honoured them in temporal things. For those things, which God reserved unto himself, that is to say, the tenths, the offerings, the first fruits, and the other Patrimonies of Christ crucified, he hath freely given to the priests for the sustentation and maintenance of their body, that they being free from labour (when other men must needs work for their living) may the more quietly serve God in spiritual things.
Secondly, 1God hath honoured them in temporall thinges. For those thinges, which God reserued vnto himself, that is to say, the tenthes, ye offerings, the fyrst frutes, and the other Patrimonyes of Christe crucifyed, he hath freely geuen to ye priests for the sustentation and mainteinaunce of their body, that they being free from laboure (when other mē must nedes worke for their liuing) may ye more quietly serue God in spirituall thinges.
- 1The second dignity of priests.The second dignitye of priestes.
Thirdly, God hath honoured them in giving them such immunities,1 privileges, liberties, and freedoms, that no earthly Prince hath jurisdiction over them, neither king, neither Prince, neither any other secular man: no neither dare any man lay violent hand upon them, no, not upon the lessest of the order. For whosoever doth the contrary, he is excommunicate with the greater excommunication eo facto, both in heaven and in earth. Verily God doth so defend them, that none dare trouble them either in word or in deed, insomuch that ⟨image 180⟩whatsoever displeasure is done unto any of them he thinketh it to be done to himself, as the Lord himself sayeth by the Prophet Zachary: