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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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We will, say they, that the old custom and manner shall continue in Egypt, Libya, and Pentapali, which is, that the Bishop of Alexandria shall have governance and rule over all these: for tha• ⟨p. 6⟩there is a like custom for the Bishop of Rome. In like manner we will, that at Antioch, & other provinces, every one shall have their due honour.
We will, say they, yt the old custome and manner shal continue in Egipte, Libie, and Pentapali, which is, that ye Bishop of Alexandria shal haue gouernaunce and rule ouer all these: for tha• ⟨p. 6⟩there is a lyke custome for ye Byshop of Rome. In like manner we wil, that at Antioche, & other prouinces, euery one shal haue their due honour.
Moreover when Faustinus Legate to the bishop of Rome alleged in the sixth council Cartaginense, 1that the bishop of Rome ought to have the ordering of all great matters in all places by his supreme authority, he alleged no scripture for him (for at that time no scripture was thought to make for it) but he alleged untruly the first general council Nicene, in which Arrius the heretic was condemned, to make for that purpose. Which after the book was brought forth, & no such article found in it, but the contrary: (yet the council at that time sent to Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch, where the Patriarchal Sees were, to have the true copy of the Council Nicene, which was sent unto them, & also from Rome, whether they sent also for that purpose. And after they found no such article in it, but in the first chapter thereof, the contrary, that all causes ecclesiastical should either be determined within the diocese ⟨image 36⟩or else if any were grieved, then to appeal to the Council provincial, and there the matter to take full end, so that for no such causes, men should go out of there province,) the whole council Cartaginense wrote to Celestine at the time being Bishop of Rome, that since the council Nicene had no such article in it, as was untruly alleged by Faustinus, but the contrary: they desired him to abstain after to make any more such demand, denouncing unto him, that they would not suffer any cause great or small to be brought by appeal out of their country & thereupon made a law, that no man should appeal out of the country of Africa, upon pain to be denounced accursed. Wherewith the Bishop of Rome ever after held him content & made no more business with them, seeing he had nought to say to the contrary. In the sixth article of the said council it was also determined, that in the Orient or East parts the Bishop of Antioch should be chief: in Egypt the Bishop of Alexandria, about Rome, the Bishop of Rome, and likewise in other countries the Metropolitans