English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources
The Doctor said, "The Third is this, _CHRIST ordained Saint PETER to be
his Vicar in earth, whose See is the Church of Rome; ordaining and
granting that the same power that he gave to PETER should succeed to
all PETER's successors, the which we call now the Popes of Rome: by
whose power in the Church particularly and specially, be ordained
Prelates as Archbishops, Bishops, and other degrees; to whom Christian
men owe_ [ought] _to obey after the law of the Church of Rome._ This is
the determination of the Church."
To this, he answered and said, "Who that followeth next PETER in living,
is next him in succession: but your living refuseth poor PETER's living,
and many other Popes that were martyrs in Rome that followed PETER in
manner of living; whose conditions ye have clean forsaken, all the world
may know it well!"
The Doctor said, "The fourth point is this. _Holy Church hath determined
that it is meedful to a Christian man, to go on pilgrimages to holy
places; and there especially to worship holy relics of Saints, Apostles,
Martyrs, Confessors, and all Saints approved by the Church of Rome._"
To this, he said, "It were enough to bury Saints fair in the earth; but
now Saints that be dead, be compelled to beg for covetousness! the which
in their life, hated covetousness and begging. But I say to you all, and
know it for a truth, that with your shrines and idols, and your feigned
absolutions and indulgences, and your temporalities, ye draw to you all
the richesse of this world."
="WHERE IS THE CROSS CHRIST DIED ON?"=
"Why Sir," said one of the Clerks, "will ye not worship images?"
"What worship?" said the Lord.
Then said Friar [THOMAS] PALMER [Warden of the Minorites], "Sir, ye will
worship the Cross of CHRIST that he died on?"
"Where is it?" said the Lord.
The Friar said, "I put case, Sir, that it were here before you!"
The Lord said, "This is a ready man! to put to me a question of a thing,
that they wot never where it is? And yet I ask you, What worship?"
A Clerk said, "Such worship as PAUL speaketh of, that is this, _GOD
forbid me to joy, but in the cross of our Lord JESU CHRIST._"
Then said the Lord, and spread his arms abroad, "This is a very cross!"
Then said the [HENRY BEAUCLERC] Bishop of LONDON, "Sir, ye wot well!
that he died on a material cross."
Then said the Lord, "Our salvation come in only by him that died on the
cross, and by the material cross. And, well I wot, that this was the
cross that PAUL joyed on, that is, in the Passion of our LORD JESU
CHRIST."
The Archbishop said, "Sir JOHN! ye must submit you to the ordinance of
the Church!"
The Lord said, "I wot not whereto?"
* * * * *
=LORD COBHAM ADJUDGED A HERETIC.=
Then the Archbishop read a bill of his judgement, and convicted him for
a heretic.
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