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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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We desire you brethren that ye do not teach nor conceive any other thing, but as ye have received of the blessed Apostle S. Peter, and of other Apostles & fathers. For of him ye were first of all instructed. 1wherefore you must not forsake your own father and follow others. For he is the head of the whole Church to whom the Lord said: Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church. &c. whose seat was first with you in Antioch: which afterward by the commandment of the Lord was translated from thence to Rome, of the which church of Rome I am this day placed (by the grace of god) to be the governor. From the which church of Rome, neither ought you to separate your selves, seeing to the same church all manner causes ecclesiastical, being of any importance (Gods grace so disposing) are commanded to be referred: by the same to be ordered regularly, from whence they took their first beginning. &c. And followeth consequently upon the same. And if your Church of Antioch, which was once the 1. will now yield her self unto the sea of Rome, there is no other Church else, 2which will not subject it self to our dominion: to whom all other Bishops, who so ever listeth, and as they must needs do (according to the decrees of the the Apostles and of their successors) ought to flee unto, as to their head, and must appeal to the same, there to have their redress, and their protection from whence they took their first instruction and consecration. &c.
We desire you brethren that ye doe not teach nor conceiue any other thing, but as yee haue receiued of the blessed Apostle S. Peter, and of other Apostles & fathers. For of him ye were first of all instructed. 1wherefore you must not forsake your owne father and followe others. For hee is the head of the whole Church to whom the Lord sayd: Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke I will build my church. &c. whose seate was first with you in Antioche: which afterward by the commaundement of the Lord was trāslated frō thence to Rome, of the which church of Rome I am this day placed (by the grace of god) to be the gouernour. Frō the which church of Rome, neither ought you to separate your selues, seeing to the same church all maner causes ecclesiasticall, being of any importance (Gods grace so disposing) are commonded to be referred: by the same to be ordered regularly, from whence they tooke their first beginning. &c. And followeth consequently vpon the same. And if your Church of Antioche, which was once the 1. wil now yeld her self vnto the sea of Rome, ther is no other Church els,