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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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Dogmate papali datur, simul ac imperially, ut sim cunctarum matter, & caput ecclesiarū.
Dogmate papali datur, simul ac imperiali, vt sim cunctarum mater, & caput ecclesiarū.
That same decree also made Pope Simplicius (as they write)1 in the year of our Lord: 471. Moreover the papists go forth and say, that when Pope Sylvester was Bishop of Rome, Constantine the Emperor did exalt and advance the Sea of Rome, that he gave unto it not only an ecclesiastical, but also an Imperial, power, appointing the church of Rome to be the chief church through out the world, & to have authority, rule, & preeminence no less over those four principal Churches, Antioch, Alexandria. Constantinople, and Jerusalem, 2than over all other churches contained under the heavens: Again, that the bishop of Rome should be higher & of greater authority, than all the bishops and priests of the whole world, and that whatsoever should be determined concerning matters of religion, should depend only upon the popes judgment, either to be received, or to be rejected, He appointed also (as the papists go forth to lye) that the pope should have free liberty to wear the apparel either ⟨image 33⟩of an emperor or of a bishop at his pleasure, and that he should have all manner of officers to attend upon, as the Emperors majesty hath. Moreover the aforesaid Emperor Constantine gave to Pope Sylvester and to his such cessors the city of Rome and all Italy,3 with the provinces, places and cities of all the west parts, to be S. Peters patrimony for ever: & addeth furthermore these words.4 If any man do infringe break, transgress, contemn and condemn this our ordinance, everlasting damnation hang over his head: and the holy and chief apostles, of God Peter and Paul be his enemies, and immortal foes both in this world and in the world to come: yea perish mought he in the lowest part of hell and so be damned for ever and ever with the devil and all the wicked.