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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.
what time Edgarus called Pacificus was borne,1 Dunstan being the same time Abbot of Glastonbury (as the monkish fables dream) heard a voice in the air of certain Angels singing after this tenor, and saying: Now peace cometh to the church of England in the time of this child and of our Dunstan, &c. This I thought to recite, that the christian reader might the better ponder with himself, the impudent and abominable fictions of this Romish generation. Out of the same mint also have they forged, how the said Dunstan should hear the angels sing the Kyrieeleyson, used to be song at evensong in the church. Guliel de pontif. lib. 1. Which is as true as that the Harp hanging in a woman's house, played by it self the time of the Anthem, called Gaudent in coelis, &c. What would not these deceivers feign in matters something likely, which in things so absurd and so inconvenient, shame not to lie and to forge so impudently & also so manifestly? Through the motion of this Dunstan: King Edmund builded and furnished the monastery of Glastonbury, & made the said Dunstan Abbot thereof.
what time Edgarus called Pacificus was borne,1 Dunstane being the same time Abbot of Glastenbury (as the monkish fables dreame) heard a voyce in the ayre of certaine Angels singing after this tenour, and saying: Nowe peace commeth to the church of England in ye time of this child and of our Dunstane, &c. This I thought to recite, that the christian reader might the better pōder wyth himselfe, the impudent and abhominable fictions of this Romish generation. Out of the same mint also haue they forged, how the sayd Dunstane should heare the aungels sing the Kyrieeleyson, vsed to be song at euensong in the church. Guliel de pontif. lib. 1. Which is as true as that the Harpe hanging in a womans house, played by it selfe the time of the Antheme, called Gaudent in coelis, &c. What would not these deceiuers faine in matters something likely, whych in thinges so absurde and so inconuenient, shame not to lie and to forge so impudently & also so manifestly? Through the motion of this Dunstane: King Edmund builded and furnished the monasterie of Glastenbury, & made the sayd Dunstane Abbot thereof.
- 1The imp• dent vanity of the Popes Church in forging false miracles. Guliel. lib. 1. de pont. The monastery of Glastonbury. Dunstan Abbot of Glostanbury. The Abbey of Glostenbury was first builded by K. Ive, by the coū sell of Adelmus, after being destroyed by the Danes. Guliel. lib. 2. de Regib.