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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.
Now contrary and against to these so manifest & express decrements of general Councils, & constitutions Synodal, this latter Church of Rome of late presumption, degenerating from all the steppes of their elders, have taken upon them a singular jurisdiction by them selves, & for their own advantage, to intermeddle in disposing & transposing Churches,1 Colleges, Monasteries, with the collations, exemptions, elections, goods & lands to the same belonging, by reason and example whereof have come in these impropriations, first fruits, & reservations of benefices to the miserable despoiling of Parishes, & horrible decay of Christen faith, which things among the old Romaine elders were never known. For so much then did it lack, that due necessities were plucked from the Church, that Emperors, Kings, & Princes plucking from their own, rather did cumulate the Church with superfluities.
Now contrary and agaynst to these so manifest & expresse decrementes of generall Councels, & constitutions Synodall, this latter Church of Rome of late presūption, degeneratyng frō all the steppes of their elders, haue taken vpon them a singular iurisdiction by them selues, & for their owne aduauntage, to entermedle in disposing & trāsposing Churches,1 Colledges, Monasteries, with the collations, exemptions, elections, goodes & landes to the same belongyng, by reason and exāple wherof haue come in these impropriations, first fruites, & reseruations of benefices to the miserable dispoyling of Parishes, & horrible decay of Christen fayth, which thynges amōg the old Romaine elders were neuer knowē. For so much then did it lacke, that due necessities were pluckt frō the Church, that Emperours, Kyngs, & Princes plucking frō their owne, rather did cumulate the Church with superfluities.
- 1Impropriations and first finites of benefices.
Again, when such goods were given to the Church by those ancestors, they were neither so given, nor yet taken, to serve the private use of certain churchmen taking no pains therein, but rather to serve the public subvention of the needy, as is contained in the canonical institutions by the Emperor Ludovicus Pius set forth. An. 830. The words be these: