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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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Also 24. q. 3. So was Gregorius surnamed Magnus, subject to Mauritius, 1and to Phocas, although a wicked Emperor. So also both Pope & people of Rome took their laws of the Emperors of Constantinople, & were submitted to them, not only in the time of Honorius an hundred years after Constantine the great, but also in the time of Martianus ▪ 2an. 1451. & so further unto the time of Justinian & of Carolus Magnus, and also after the days of them. In all which continuance of time, it is manifest, that the Imperial law of Martian did rule & bind in Rome, both in the days of Justinian, an 150. years after, till the time of the Empire being translated from Greece unto France. Whereby it may appear false▪ that the City of Rome was given by Constantine the first unto the bishop of Rome to govern, for that Pope […] the first writing to the Emperor Honorius, c•••eth in the same place Rome the Emperors City. Dist. 97. cap. 1. And Lotharius, also Emperor appointed Magistrates and laws in Rome,3 as is above mentioned. Moreover, for further probation hereof, that both the Bishop of Rome & all other Ecclesiastical persons were in former time, and ought to be subject to their Emperors and lawful Magistrates, in causes as well spiritual as civil,4 by many evidences may appear, taken out both of Gods law, and mans law. And first by Gods law we have example of godly king David, who numbered all the Priests and Levites, & disposed them into xxiiij. orders or courses, appointing them continually to serve in the ministry every one in his proper order & turn, as came about: which institution of the Clergy, also good king Hezekiah afterward renewed, of whom it is written: he did that was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all things as his father David had done before, he took away the high groves, and brake down Images. &c. 4. Reg. 8. The said Hezekiah also reduced the Priests & Levites into their orders, prescribed by David before, to serve every one in his office of ministration .2. Paralip. 30.31. And this order from David still continued till the time of Zechariah at the coming of Christ our Lord, being of Abias course, which was the viij. order of the Priests appointed to serve in the tabernacle.