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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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3. My third probation I deduct out of Origen, Home. 4. in Ezechielem, 3whose words be these: Britanniam in Christianam consentire religionem. Whereby it appeareth that the faith of Christ was sparsed here in England before the days of Eleutherius.
3. My thirde probation I deduct out of Origen, Home. 4. in Ezechielem, 3whose words be these: Britāniam in Christianam consentire religionem. Whereby it appeareth that the faith of Christ was sparsed here in England before the daies of Eleutherius.
- 3Ex Origen hom. 4. in Ezech.Ex Origen hom. 4. in Ezech•.
4. For my fourth probation I take the testimony of Bede, where he affirmeth that in his time, and almost a thousand year after Christ, here in Britain: Easter was kept after the manner of the East Church,4 in the full moon: what day in the week soever it fell on, and not on the Sunday, as we do now. Whereby it is to be collected, that the first preachers in this land, have come out from the East part of the world,5 where it was so used, rather then from Rome.
4. For my fourth probation I take the testimony of Bede, where he affirmeth that in his time, and almost a thousand yeare after Christ, here in Britayne: Easter was kept after the maner of the East Church,4