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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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They not knowing the cause of the first institution, have feigned the holy water, as they call it, to be of such and so great virtue,1 might, and power, that it is able to put away sin, to give health both of mind & body, to make so many holy and pure, as be sprinkled with it, to give abundance of things, to drive away devils, to chase away all the power of our ghostly enemy, yea and to pluck him up by the roots and utterly to destroy him with all his Apostatic angels, to put back diseases, to expel all corrupt and pestilent airs, to dispatch all the guiles, subtleties, sleights and deceits of the lurking enemy, •o banish all things that be contrary to the health, prosperity, and quietness of all such, as dwell in the houses where it is sprinkled, to give security of hope, corroboration & strengthening of faith, to bring the holy ghost, & at the last what not? Are not all these things read in their exorcisms & conjurations of their bewitched & salted water ⟨image 190⟩as we have tofore heard, and in other Popish treatises?
They not knowing the cause of the first instititution, haue fayned the holy water, as they cal it, to be of such and so greate vertue,1 might, and power, that it is able to put away sinne, to geue health both of minde & body, to make so many holy and pure, as be sprinckled with it, to geue abundaunce of thynges, to dryue awaye deuils, to chase awaye all the power of our ghostly enemye, yea and to plucke him vp by the rootes and vtterly to destroy him with all his Apostatike aungels, to put backe diseases, to expell all corrupte and pestilente ayres, to dispatche all ye guyles, subtilties, sleyghtes and disceates of the lurkyng enemye, •o banyshe al thynges that be contratye to the healthe, prosperitye, and quietnesse of all such, as dwel in ye houses where it is sprinckled, to geue securitie of hope, corroboratiō & strengthning of faith, to bring the holy ghost, & at the laste what not? Are not all these things read in their exorcismes & coniuratiōs of their bewitched & salted water ⟨image 190⟩