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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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The Sentence of the Council of Brixia, against Hildebrand. Because it is not unknown, this bishop not to be elected of God but to have intruded himself by fraud and money, who hath subverted all Ecclesiastical order,1 who hath disturbed the government of the Christian Empery, menacing death of body and soul against our catholic & peaceable king, who hath set up & maintained a perjured king, sowing discord, where concord was, causing debate amongst friends, slanders, & offences amongest brethren; divorcements and separation amongest the married (for he took away the marriage of priests, as Henricus Mutius witnesseth) and finally disquieting the peaceable state of all quiet life: therefore we here in the name & authority of God congregate together,2 with the Legates & hands of 19. Bishops, the day of Pentecost at Mentz, do proceed in Canonical judgement, against Hildebrand, a man most wicked, preaching sacrilege and burning, maintaining perjury and murders, calling in question the Catholic faith of the body and blood of the Lord, a follower of divination and dreams, a manifest Necromancer, a Sorcerer, and infected with a Pythonicall spirit,3 and therefore departed from the true faith, we judge him to be deposed & expelled. And unless he hearing this, shall yield and depart the seat, to be perpetually condemned. Enacted vij. Calend. Julij. feria. 5. indictione. 3.
The Sentence of the Councell of Brixia, against Hildebrand. BEcause it is not vnknown, this bishop not to be elected of God but to haue intruded himselfe by fraud and money, who hath subuerted all Ecclesiasticall order,1 who hath disturbed the gouernment of the Christian Empery, manasing death of body and soule against our catholike & peaceable king, who hath set vp & maintayned aperiured kyng, sowyng discorde, where concorde was, causing debate amongst friends, slāders, & offences amongest brethrenne; diuorcementes and separation amongest the maried (for he tooke away the mariage of priests, as Henricus Mutius witnesseth) and finally disquieting the peaceable state of all quiet lyfe: therefore we here in the name & authoritie of God congregate together,