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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
Volume 2 › Book 11: The eleventh Book.Volume 2 › Book 11: The eleuenth Booke.
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.
An other time missing his cold Peacock,1 most horribly blaspheming God, he brake into a rage. Whereupon when one of his cardinals sitting by, laboured to pacify him; what (said Julius the Pope) if God was so angry for one apple, that he cast our first parents out of Paradise therefore:2 why may not I being his vicar, be angry then for my Peacock, sithence a Peacock is a greater matter then an apple? He confirmed the idol of Lauretane.
An other time missing his cold Peacocke,1 most horribly blasphemyng God, he brake into a rage. Wherevpon when one of his cardinals sitting by, labored to pacifie him; what (said Iulius ye Pope) if God was so angry for one apple, that hée cast our first parents out of Paradice therefore:2 why may not I being his vicar, be angry then for my Peacocke, sithence a Peacocke is a greater matter then an apple? Hée confirmed the idoll of Lauretane.
- 1Popes Peacock.Popes Peacocke.
- 2A blasphemous Pope.
Upon Shrovesunday, which was about the iij. of March, the same year a priest in Kent, named Nightingale, parson of Crondall besides Canterbury, rejoicing at the alteration of religion, and reading to the people the popes Bull of pardon that was sent into England, he said, he thanked God that ever he had lived to see that day: adding moreover, that he believed that by the virtue of that Bull, he was as clear of sin as the night that he was borne: and immediately upon the same fell suddenly down out of the Pulpit,