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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.
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.
About this age (as before) God raised up learned men, who laid open the abuses of the Church, as Gregorius Arminensis, 1according to Trithemius, who dissented from the Papists and Sophisters, as we do in doctrine of Freewill, counting the Papists and Sophisters in that point worse then the Pelagians. Taulerus 2a preacher of Germany in Argentine taught, anno 1350. §1350against mens merits, and invocation of Saints, and was an enemy to all superstition: to whom may be added Franciscus Petrarcha 3of the same age, who calleth Rome the whore of Babylon, the mother of error, the Temple of Heresy, &c. and higher, in the year one thousand, three hundred, and fortie, Johannes de rupe Scissa, 4was cast in prison for rebuking the Spirituality of their great enormities: he called the Church of Rome the whore of Babylon,5 and the Pope the minister of Antichrist, and the Cardinals false Prophets: being in prison he wrote a book of prophecies, touching the affliction that hung over the heads of the Spirituality, calling his Book, Vade mecum in tribulation.6
About this age (as before) God raysed vp learned men, who layd open the abuses of the Church, as Gregorius Arminensis, 1according to Trithemius, who dissented from the Papistes and Sophisters, as wée doo in doctrine of Fréewill, counting the Papistes and Sophisters in that point worse then the Pelagians. Taulerus 2a preacher of Germany in Argentine taught, anno 1350. §1350against mens merites, and inuocation of Saints, and was an enemy to all superstition: to whom may be added Franciscus Petrarcha