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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
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Miltiades by the testimony of Platina, and other that follow him sat 3. years, & 7. months, & suffered under Maximinianus. But that seemeth not to be true, as both Sabellicus doth rightly note,1 affirming that the same cannot stand by the supputation of time: Forasmuch as the said Galerius Maximinus reigned but 2. years, and died before Miltiades. Also Eusebius manifestly expresseth the example of a letter of Constantine written to this Miltiades Bishop of Rome,2 plainly convicting that to be false, which Platina affirmeth.
Miltiades by the testimony of Platina, and other that follow him sat 3. yeares, & 7. moneths, & suffred vnder Maximinianus. But that semeth not to be true, as both Sabellicus doth rightly note,1 affirming that the same cannot stand by the supputation of time: Forasmuch as the saide Galerius Maximinus raigned but 2. yeares, and died before Miltiades. Also Eusebius manifestly expresseth the example of a letter of Constantine written to this Miltiades Byshop of Rome,2 playnely conuicting that to bee false, which Platina affirmeth.
- 1Sabel. ibid.
- 2A place of Platina confuted.
1In the book collected of general councils among the decretal epistles, there is a long tractation about the judgement and condemnation of Marcellinus: whereof the Masters & Patrons of popery, in these our days, take great hold to prove the supremacy of the pope to be above all general councils, and that he ought not to be subject to the condemnation of any person or persons, for that there is written: Nemo unquam judicavit Pontificem, nec Praesul sacerdotem suum,