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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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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:2 He ye toucheth you, toucheth the apple of mine eye.3 Again in the Psalm he sayeth: touch not mine anointed: so that priests are not to be molested so much as with a word, but they are to be honoured, as the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: I will bless them ye bless you, and curse them that curse you. In consideration whereof, the priests and men of the church are privileged insomuch that whosoever do make, or cause to be made or to be kept any statutes, that be against the liberties of the priests and men of the Clergy, they are straight ways excommunicate & accursed. Item, no worldly Prince dare make exactions upon the Clergy: neither dare any man ask any kind of payments, or take any thing of the Clergy: For if he do, he is out of hand excommunicate, neither can he be absolved from the aforesaid excommunication, except he make restitution at the full.
Thyrdly, God hath honoured them in geuing them suche immunities,1 priuileges, liberties, and fredomes, that no earthlye Prince hath iurisdiction ouer them, neither king, neither Prince, neither any other seculare mā: no neither dare any man lay violente hande vpon them, no, not vppon the lessest of ye order. For whosoeuer doth the contrary, he is excommunicate with the greater excommunication eo facto, both in heauen and in earth. Uerely God doth so defend thē, yt none dare trouble thē eyther in worde or in deede, insomuche yt