A67922:1575
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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How a Bishop ought to behave himself in the Congregation,1 the holy scripture testifieth which I doubt not but you know right well, especially in the Epistles of S Paul to Timothy: wherein he laboureth to inform the said Timothy, how to behave his conversation in the house of the Lord. The manner is of the sea Apostolic, to warn and charge all such as be ordained Bishops, of all their stipend or that which given, to make four pertitions. One to the Bishop for hospitality, and receiving comers in. An other to the Clergy,2 The third to the pore. The fourth to the repairing of Churches. But because your brotherhood instructed with rules of Monastical discipline, cannot live separated from your clerks about you, therefore in the English Church (which now through the providence of God is brought to the faith of Christ) you must observe this institution, concerning your conversation, which was in the first Fathers in the beginning of the primitive Church, among whom there was not one which counted any thing to be his own proper, of all that he did possess: but all was common among them.
How a Bishop ought to behaue himselfe in the Congregation,1 the holy scripture testifieth which I doubt not but you know right well, especiallye in the Epistles of S Paule to Timothie: wherein he laboureth to informe the sayd Timothe, how to behaue his conuersation in ye house of the Lord. The maner is of the sea Apostolike, to warne and charge all such as be ordeined Bishops, of all their stipend or that which giuen, to make foure pertitiōs. One to the Bishop for hospitalitie, and receauing commers in. An other to the Clergy,