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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 1 › Book 4: The fourth book.Volume 1 › Book 4: The fourth booke.
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that is: The whole world doth scarce satisfy his covetousness, neither doth one harlot suffice for his lechery: and in the end prophesied:1 Neither (saith he) shall the Church be delivered from the servitude of Egypt, but by violence and force, and by the bloody sword. So scarce able to utter his words, with sighing, sobbing, & weeping, his tongue & breath failed, and so finished his days. He departed, An. 1253. §1253Of ⟨p. 232⟩his decease: thus writeth Math. Paris. pag. 278. Out of the prison and banishment of this world which he never loved, was taken the holy bishop of Lincoln, Robert, at his Manor of Buckdune on the even of S. Dionise:2 who was an open reprover of the pope, and of the king: a rebuker, of the Prelates: instructor of the clerks: favourer of scholars: preacher to the people: persecutor to the incontinent: a diligent searcher of the Scriptures: a maul to the Romans,3 and a contemner to their doings, &c.