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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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This miracle Pope Adrian like a wise expounder of dreams, saith, that as the leaves were torn and blown abroad all the church over, so should Gregory's book be used throughout the world, whereupon they thought themselves sufficiently instructed and taught of God, that the service which Gregory had made, ought to be set abroad & used throughout the world, and that Ambrose his service should only be observed and kept in his own church of Mediolanum, where he sometime was bishop.
This miracle Pope Adrian like a wyse expounder of dreames, saith, that as the leaues were torne and blown abroad all the church ouer, so should Gregories booke be vsed throughout ye world, whereupō they thought themselues sufficiently instructed and taught of God, that the seruice which Gregory had made, ought to be set abroad & vsed throughout the world, and that Ambrose his seruice should onely be obserued and kept in his owne church of Mediolanum, where he sometyme was bishop.
Thus hast thou heard (brother Reader) the full and whole narration of this mystical miracle, with the Popes exposition upon the same, which seemeth to be as true, as that which Daniel speaketh of, how the Idol Bell did eat up all the meat that was set before him all the night, Daniel, 14. Concerning the which miracle, I need not admonish thee to smell out the blind practises of these nightcrowes, to blind the world with forged inventions in stead of true stories. Albeit to grant the miracle to be most true & unfallible, yet as touching the exposition thereof, another man beside the Pope, percase might interpret this great miracle otherwise, as thus: That God was angry with Gregory's book, and therefore rent it in pieces, and scattered it abroad, and the other as good, lay sound untouched, and at the least so to be preferred. Notwithstanding, whatsoever is to be thought of this miracle with the exposition thereof,1 thus the matter fell out, that Gregory's service had only the place, and yet hath to this day in the greatest part of Europe, the service of Ambrose being excluded. And thus much touching the great act of Pope Adrian, for the setting up of the Mass. By the relation whereof, yet this knowledge may come to the Reader, at least to understand, how that commonly in christen nations abroad, as yet no uniform