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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.
In funerals, Priests then flocked not together, selling trentals and diriges for sweeping of Purgatory: but only a funeral concion was used, with Psalms of praises, & songs of their worthy deeds: and Alleluia sounding on high, which did shake the gilded ceilings of the temple, as witnesseth Nazianzene, Ambrose, and Hierome, &c.
In funeralles, Priestes then flocked not together, selling trentals and diriges for sweping of Purgatorie: but onely a funeral cōcion was vsed, with Psalmes of praises, & songs of theyr worthy deedes: and Alleluya sounding on high, which did shake the gilded seelings of the temple, as witnesseth Nazianzene, Ambrose, and Hierome, &c.
In the Supper of the Lord, & at Baptism, no such ceremonies were used, as now of late hath been intruded, in so much that as in this story is showed hereafter, both Austen and Paulinus Baptised then in Rivers not in hallowed founts,1 as witnesseth Fabianus. The Portuis of Sarum, of York, of Bangor, with Matins and Evensong of the day: again neither the orders and religions of Monks & Friars, were not yet dreamed of, to the space almost of a thousand years after, &c. So that, as I said, if the Papists would needs derive the faith & religion of this Realm, from Rome: then let them set us & leave us there, where they had us: that is, let them suffer us to stand content with that faith and religion, which then was taught & brought from Rome by Eleutherius (as now we differ nothing from the same) and we will desire no better. And if they will not, then let the wise Reader judge, where the fault is, in us or them which neither themselves will persist in the antiquity of the Romish religion, which they so much brag of, neither will they permit us so to do.
In the Supper of the Lord, & at Baptisme, no such ceremonies were vsed, as now of late hath bene intruded, in so much that as in this story is shewed hereafter, both Austen and Paulinus Baptised then in Riuers not in halowed fountes,1