A67922:1954
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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And also where he should turn the bread of the altar (as the writer termeth it) into lively flesh, & from flesh into bread again, to confirm the people which before doubted in the same. Where note again (good Reader) that albeit this miracle were true, as no doubt it is untrue: yet is it to be noted, that in those days was a great doubt among englishmen of the popish sacrament,1 & that transubstantiation was not received into the christian creed. The like judgement is to be given also of that, where our English writers testifying of the same Odo, say that he should prophesy long before of Dunstan, to be his successor in the church of Canterbury. But to let these fantasies and idle stories pass, this which we find of Odo, his own writing is certain, that the said Odo in the reign of king Edmund, had a synod commenced of the chief Prelates and men of the clergy in his time, to whom he directed this letter here following: the copy whereof I thought to express, for the Reader to see what zealous care reigned in Archbishops then toward the Church of the Lord. The words of his epistle proceed in this tenor.
And also where he should turne the bread of the aulter (as the writer termeth it) into liuely fleshe, & from flesh into bread againe, to confirme the people which before doubted in the same. Where note agayn (good Reader) that albeit this miracle were true, as no doubt it is vntrue: yet is it to be noted, yt in those dayes was a great doubt among englishmen of the popish sacrament,1 & that transubstantiatiō was not receiued into the christiā creed. The like iudgement is to be geuē also of that, where our English writers testifieng of the same Odo, say that hee should prophesie long before of Dunstan, to be his successor in the church of Canterbury. But to let these fantasies and idle stories passe, this which we find of Odo, his own writing is certain, that the said Odo in the raigne of kyng Edmund, had a synode commensed of the chiefe Prelates and mē of the clergy in his time, to whom he directed this letter here following: the copy whereof I thought to expresse, for the Reader to see what zelous care raigned in Archbishops then toward the Church of the Lord. The wordes of his epistle proceed in this tenour.
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