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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.
And hear yet more what the said author writeth in the same cause of the kings wrath & Beckets faults. Plusquam 100. homicidia a clericis commissa sub Hen, ij. dicuntur. In quibus plectendis rex aliquanto vehementior. Sed huius immoderationis regiae, nostri temporis Episcopos tantum respicit culpa, quantum ab eis processit & causa. Cumenim sacri praecipiunt canons, clericos non solùm facinorosos & gravioribus irretitos, criminibus, verùm etiam leviorum criminum reos degradari, & tot millia talium, tanquam innumeras inter pauca grana paleas Ecclesia Anglicana contineat, tamen quam paucos a multis retro annis clericos in anglia contigit officio privari. Nempe Episcopi dun defendendis magis clericorum libertatibus vel dignitatibus quam corum vitijs corrigendis tesecandisque inuigilant•arbitrā tur obsequiū se praestare Deo & Ecclesiae, sifacinorosos clericos quos pro officij debito canonicae vigour censurae coercere debeant, contra publicam tucantur disciplinam. Undē clerici qui in sortem domini vocati, tanquam stellae in firmamento coeli positae, vita & verbo lucere deberent super terram, habentes pro impunitate agendi quodcunque libuerit, licentiam & libertatem, neque Deum, cuius judicium tardare videtur, nenque homines potestatem habentes reverentur, cum & Episcopalis circa eos sollicitudo sit languida, & seculari eos jurisdictioni sacri eximat ordinis praerogativa. That is.
And heare yet more what the sayde author writeth in the same cause of the kinges wrath & Beckets faults. Plusquam 100. homicidia a clericis commissa sub Hen, ij. dicuntur. In quibus plectendis rex aliquanto vehementior. Sed huius immoderationis regiae, nostri temporis Episcopos tantum respicit culpa, quantum ab eis processit & causa. Cumenim sacri praecipiūt canones, clericos nō solùm facinorosos & grauioribus irretitos, criminibus, verùm etiam leuiorum criminum reos degradari, & tot millia talium, tanquam innumeras inter pauca grana paleas Ecclesia Anglicana contineat, tamen quam paucos a multis retro annis clericos in anglia contigit officio priuari. Nempe Episcopi dū defendendis magis clericorum libertatibus vel dignitatibus quam corum vitijs corrigendis tesecandisque inuigilant•arbitrā tur obsequiū se praestare Deo & Ecclesiae, sifacinorosos clericos quos pro officij debito canonicae vigore censurae coercere debeant, contra publicam tucantur disciplinam. Vndē clerici qui in sortem domini vocati, tanquam stellae in firmamento coeli positae, vita & verbo lucere deberent super terram, habentes pro impunitate agendi quodcunque libuerit, licentiam & libertatem, neque Deum, cuius iudicium tardare videtur, nēque homines potestatem habētes reuerentur, cum & Episcopalis circa eos sollicitudo sit languida, & seculari eos iurisdictioni sacri eximat ordinis praerogatiua. That is.