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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.
Farther, by him it was decreed to be judged for adultery, if any person (by his life time) had put from him either Bishopric or benefice:1 grounding upon this Scripture of S. Paul to the Romaines: Alligata est uxor legi viri, quamdiu vir eius vivit: eo defuncto, soluta est a lege viri &c. That is: the wife is bound to the law of her husband, so long as the husband liveth: after he is dead, she is loose from the law of her husband. &c.
Farther, by him it was decreed to be iudged for adultery, if any person (by his life time) had put from him either Byshopricke or benefice:1 grounding vpon this Scripture of S. Paule to the Romaines: Alligata est vxor legi viri, quamdiu vir eius viuit: eo defuncto, soluta est a lege viri &c. That is: the wife is bounde to the lawe of her husbande, so long as the husband liueth: after he is dead, she is loose frō the law of her husband. &c.
- 1Scripture clerkly applied of the pope. Priests and ministers compelled to leave their wives.Scripture clerkly applyed of the pope. Priestes and ministers compelled to leaue their wiues.