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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.
REx autem quia vicarius summi Regis est, ad hoc est constitutus, ut regnum terrenum & populum domini, & super omnia sanctam eius veneretur ecclesiam & regat, & ab iniuriosis defendat, & maleficos ab ea avellat & destruat, & penitus disperdat. Quvod nisi fecerit, nomen regis non in eo constabit. Verùm, Papa Joanne testante, nomen regis perdit, cui Pipinus & Carolus filius eius nec dum reges, sed principes sub rege Francorum stultò scripserunt quaerentes: si ita permanere deberent Francorum reges, solo regio nomine contenti. A quo responsum est, illos decet vocare reges, qui vigilanter defendunt, & regunt Ecclesiam Dei & populum eius, &c. In English thus.
REx autem quia vicarius summi Regis est, ad hoc est constitutus, vt regnum terrenum & populum domini, & super omnia sanctam eius veneretur ecclesiam & regat, & ab iniuriosis defendat, & maleficos ab ea auellat & destruat, & penitus disperdat. Quuod nisi fecerit, nomen regis non in eo constabit. Verùm, Papa Ioanne testante, nomen regis perdit, cui Pipinus & Carolus filius eius nec dum reges, sed principes sub rege Francorum stultò scripserunt quaerentes: si ita permanere deberent Francorum reges, solo regio nomine contenti. A quo responsum est, illos decet vocare reges, qui vigilanter defendunt, & regunt Ecclesiam Dei & populum eius, &c. In English thus.
1The king because he is the vicar of the hiest king, is appointed for this purpose: to rule the earthly kingdom, and the lords people, and above all things, to reverence his holy church: to govern it, and to defend it from injuries: to pluck away wicked doers, and utterly to destroy them. Which unless he do, the name of a king agreeth not unto him, but he loseth the name of a King, as witnesseth Pope John: to the which Pope, Pipinus & Carolus his son (being not yet kings but princes under the French King being not very wise) did write, demanding this question, whither the kings of France ought so to continue having but only the name of a king.2 Unto whom Pope John answereth again, that it was convenient to call them kings which vigilā ly do defend and govern the church of God and his people, following the saying of King David the Psalmograph. He shall not dwell in my house which worketh pride. &c. Moreover, the king by right & by his office, ought to defend & conserve fully & wholly in all ampleness without diminution, all the lands, honours, dignities, rights, and liberties of the crown of his kingdom. And further to reduce into their pristine state, all such things as have been dispersed, wasted and lost, which appertain to his kingdom. Also the whole and universal land with all Islands about the same unto Norway and Denmark, be appertaining to the crown of his kingdom, and be of the appurtenances and dignity of the King: making one monarchy and one kingdom,