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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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22. Item, they hold against the Latin men, for celebrating without the consecrated Church, either in the house or in the field: And fasting on the Sabbath day: And for permitting menstruous women, to enter into the Church before their purifying: Also for suffering dogs, and other beasts, to enter into the Church.
22. Item, they holde against the Latine men, for celebrating without the consecrated Churche, either in the house or in the field: And fasting on the Sabboth day: And for permitting menstruous wemen, to enter into the Church before their purifying: Also for suffering dogges, and other beastes, to enter into the Church.
23. The Grecians use not to kneel in all their devotions, yea not to the body of Christ (as the register termeth it) but one day in the whole year: saying and affirming, that the Latins be goats and beasts, for they are always prostrating themselves upon the ground in their prayers.
23. The Grecians vse not to knele in all their deuotions, yea not to the body of Christ (as the register termeth it) but one day in the whole yeare: saying and affirming, that the Latines be goates and beastes, for they are alwayes prostrating themselues vpon the ground in their praiers.
24. The Grecians moreover permit not the Latins, to celebrate upon their altars. And if it chance any Latin Priest to celebrate upon their altar, by and by they wash their altar, in token of abomination & false sacrifice. And diligently they observe, that when soever they do celebrate, they do but one Liturgy or mass upon one altar or table, that day.