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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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.
when as the persecution against the Christians was then so hot, in the days of Hadrian that the Bishops of Rome themselves were more glad to flee out of the City, then other bishops were to come to them unto Rome. And if Xistus added the Sanctus unto the Mass cannon, what piece then of the canon went before it, when they which put to the other patches came after Xistus: And if they came after Xistus that added the rest, why did they set their pieces before his, seeing they that began the first piece of the canon, came after him?
when as the persecution against the Christians was then so hoate, in the daies of Hadrian that the Bishoppes of Rome themselues were more glad to flee out of the Citie, then other bishops were to come to them vnto Rome. And if Xistus added the Sanctus vnto the Masse cannon, what peece then of the canon went before it, when they which put to the other patches came after Xistus: And if they came after Xistus that aded the rest, why did they set their peeces before his, seing they yt began the first peece of the canon, came after him?
The same likewise is to be judged of the Epistles & ordinances of Telesphorus, 1who succeeded next unto Xistus, and being Bishop of that congregation the term of a 11, years, the first year of the reign of Antoninus Pius, dyed Martyr, about the year of our Lord. 138. His Epistle like unto the rest containing in it no great matter of doctrine,2 hath these ordinances: First he commandeth all that were of the Clergy to fast and abstain from flesh eating, vij. weeks before Easter. That three Masses should be said upon the Nativity day of the Lord. That no lay man should accuse either bishop or priest. He ordained moreover Gloria in excelsis, to be added to the Mass, &c. but these things falsely to be feigned upon him may easily be conjectured. For as touching the vij. weeks fast neither doth it agree with the old Roman term commonly received, calling it Quadragesima, 3