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An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
After the council of Nuremberg, immediately followed another sitting at Ratisbone,1 where were present Ferdinandus Campeius Cardinal of Salisburgh, the two dukes of Bavaria, the Bishops of Trent, and Ratisbone, &c. and made many popish Decrees and acts against Luther: 2which Campeius laboured to have enacted in a full council, and with the consents of all the Empire: but the minds of diverse were gone from the Pope: and he was fain to get the same ratified in this particular conventicle.
After the councell of Noremberg, immediatly followed another sitting at Ratisbone,1 where were present Ferdinandus Campeius Cardinall of Salisburgh, the two dukes of Bauarie, the Bishops of Trent, and Ratisbone, &c. and made many popish Decrées and actes against Luther: 2which Campeius laboured to haue enacted in a full councell, and with the consents of all the Empyre: but the mindes of diuerse were gone from the Pope: and he was faine to get the same ratified in this particular conuenticle.
- 1A councell at Ratesbone.
- 2Acts against Luther.Actes against Luther.
An. 1519. Uldricus Zuinglius, 1first abiding at Glocrona in a place called our Lords hermitage, removed to Zuricke, and there began to teach, dwelling in the Minster among the Canons or Monks, of that close, & using the same rites with them, the space of two or three years: & because Leo the same year had renewed his pardons again, he continued by the space of two years & more, detecting of the abuses of the same, till Hugo B. of Constance, to whose jurisdiction Zurick did then belong, wrote letters to the senate of Zuricke, complaining greatly of Zuinglius: to whom certain of the city made answer, desiring the B. that he would do nothing prejudicial to the liberty of the gospel; Zuinglius having referred his cause to the Senate. This was An. 1522.