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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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Although glass be made of vile matter and stuff,1 yet is it reproved & found to be more clear than gold and silver, so likewise every priest, be he never so great and grievous a sinner, yet doth he far excel all other creatures, ⟨image 185⟩both Kings and Princes & is of greater dignity than all the creatures that are. Ye are (sayeth S. Peter speaking to priests) a chosen generation,2 a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a won people, not only of a temporal election but also of an eternal predestination.
Althoughe glasse bee made of vyle matter and stuffe,1 yet is it reproued & founde to be more clere than golde and siluer, so likewise euery priest, be he neuer so great and greuous a sinner, yet doth he farre excell al other creatures, ⟨image 185⟩both Kinges and Princes & is of greater dignitie than al ye creatures yt are. Ye are (sayeth S. Peter speakyng to priestes) a chosen generation,2 a royall priesthoode, an holy nation, a wonne people, not only of a temporal election but also of an eternall predestination.
- 1A similitude to set forth ye dignity of priests.A similitude to set forth ye dignitie of priestes.
- 2i. Peter. ii
O the worshipful dignity of priests, if ye live worthily and priestlike, within whose hands as in the Virgins womb the Son of God is incarnate and made man. O heavenly mystery, which the father and the son, and the holy ghost doth so marvellously work by you, that in one and in the same moment the same God, which sitteth & ruleth in heaven, is a sacrifice in your hands. The heaven wondereth at so noble a privilege: the earth marveleth: man is greatly astonied: hell quaketh for fear the devil trembleth and shaketh all that is on him: the Angelic highness is in great admiration. What then shall I priest give again unto the Lord, for all things that he hath given me? As for an example: He that hath made me, hath given me power to make him: yea he that made me without me, is made by the