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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.
Whereunto agreeth also the testimony of Prosper, 1whose words be these: Viros sanctos ecclesiae non vendicas•e ut proprias, sed ut commendatas pauperibus divisisse: that is, good men took the goods of the church not as their own but distributed them as given & bequeathed to the poor. And sayth moreover: Quod habet Ecclesia, cum omnibus nihil habentibus habet commune, that is: Whatsoever the church hath, it hath it common, with all such as have nothing. &c.
Wherunto agreeth also the testimony of Prosper, 1whose wordes be these: Viros sanctos ecclesiae non vendicas•e vt proprias, sed vt commendatas pauperibus diuisisse: that is, good men tooke ye goodes of the church not as their own but distributed thē as geuē & bequeathed to the poore. And sayth moreouer: Quod habet Ecclesia, cum omnibus nihil habentibus habet commune, that is: Whatsoeuer the church hath, it hath it common, with all such as haue nothyng. &c.
- 1The words of Prosper.The wordes of Prosper.
Add to these the worthy testimony of S. August. ad Bonif. Si autem privatim, 1quae nobis sufficiant possidemus, nō sunt illa nostra, sed pauperum quorum procurationem quodammodo gerimus, non proprietatem nobis usurpatione damnabili vendicamus, &c.
Adde to these the worthy testimony of S. August. ad Bonif. Si autem priuatim, 1quae nobis sufficiant possidemus, nō sunt illa nostra, sed pauperum quorum procurationem quodammodo gerimus, non proprietatem nobis vsurpatione damnabili vendicamus, &c.