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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
Book 3 › * King Allured otherwise called Alfred.Book 3 › * King Alured otherwise called Alfrede.
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.
At the request of this Charles surnamed Bald, the French king, this Scotus translated the book of Dionysius, intituled De Hierarchia, from Greek into Latin, word for word, quo fit (as my author saith) ut vix intelligatur Latina litera, 1quum nobilitate magis Graeca, quam positione construitur Latina. He wrote also a Book De corpore & sanguine Domini, which was afterward condemned by the Pope In Concilio Vercellensi.
At the request of thys Charles surnamed Bawld, the Frenche king, this Scotus translated the booke of Dionysius, intituled De Hierarchia, from Greeke into Latin, worde for worde, quo fit (as my author sayth) vt vix intelligatur Latina litera, 1quum nobilitate magis Graeca, quam positione construitur Latina. He wrote also a Booke De corpore & sanguine Domini, whych was afterward condemned by the Pope In Concilio Vercellensi.
- 1Joan Scotus translated Hierarchiam Dion•tij. from Greek to Latin.Ioan Scotus translated Hierarchiam Dion•tij. from Greek to Latine.
The same Johannes Scotus moreover compiled a book of his own, giving it a greek title, [Greek or Hebrew], that is, De naturae divisione. In which book (as sayeth my foresaid author) is contained the resolution of many profitable questions (but so) that he is thought to follow the Greek Church,1 rather then the Latin, and for the same was counted of some to be an heretic: because in that book some things there be, which in all points accord not with the Romish Religion. Wherefore the Pope, writing to the said king Charles of this Scotus, complaineth, as in his own words here followeth: