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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.
About this time (as Mathaeus Parisiensis writeth) the king of England favoured not much the sea of Rome, because of their impudent and unsatiable exactions,1 which they required, neither would he suffer any of his subjects to go to Rome, alleging these words in the author thus expressed: Quòd Petri non inhaerent vestigijs, praemijs inhiantes, non eius potestatem retinent, cuius sanctitatem probantur non imitari: that is, because they follow not the steppes of Peter, hunting for rewards; neither have they the power and authority of him, whose holiness they declare themselves not to follow, &c.
About this tyme (as Mathaeus Parisiensis writeth) the kinge of England fauoured not much the sea of Rome, because of their impudent and vnsatiable exactiōs,1 which they required, neither would he suffer any of his subiectes to go to Rome, alleaging these wordes in the author thus expressed: Quòd Petri non inhaerent vestigijs, praemijs inhiantes, non eius potestatem retinent, cuius sanctitatem probantur non imitari: that is, because they follow not the steppes of Peter, hunting for rewardes; neither haue they the power and authoritie of him, whose holinesse they declare themselues not to follow, &c.
- 1The king of Englands judgment against the Pope. Ex Math. paris.The king of Englands iudgment agaynst the Pope. Ex Math. paris.