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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.
This Charles builded so many Monasteries as there be letters in the A.B.C. He held a Council at Frankfort, wherein was condemned, the Council of Nice, and Irene, ⟨p. 92⟩for setting up, and worshipping of Images.
This Charles builded so many Monasteries as there bée letters in the A.B.C. He helde a Councell at Franckforde, wherein was condemned, the Councell of Nice, and Irene, ⟨p. 92⟩for setting vp, and worshipping of Images.
Anno 784. §784Irene Empress of the Greeks, through the means of Pope Hadrian, took up the body of Constantine Emperor of Constantinople,1 her own husbands father, and when she had burned the same, she caused the ashes to be cast into the Sea, because he disannulled Images. Afterward she reigned with her son Constantine the sixth, son to Leo the fourth:2 who was also excommunicated for taking away Images, and being at dissension with him, she caused him to be taken, and laid in prison: and afterward (through power of friends being restored) was at the last again cast into prison,3 and had his eyes pulled out so cruelly, that within short space he died. After this, the Empress by the counsel of Therasius, Bishop of Constantinople, held a Council at Nicaea, wherein it was decreed, that Images again should be restored to the Church: which Charles afterward repealed at Frankford. At length she was deposed by Nicephorus, who succeeded her, and ended her life in much penury.