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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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And again declaring the kings of nations to have dominion over them, & willing his Disciples not so to do, giving us to understand the difference between the regiment of his spiritual kingdom, & of the kingdom of this world, willing all worldly states to be subject under the superior rulers & Magistrates, in whose regiment is dominion and subjection, & not in the other. Whereunto accordeth also the doctrine of S. Paul,1 where it is written: let every soul be subject to the higher powers, under whose obedience neither Pope, Cardinal, Patriarch, Bishop, Priest, Friar nor Monk is excepted,2 nor exempted, as Theophilactus expounding the same place declareth, & saith: Universos erudit, sive sacerdos sit ille, sive monachus, sive Apostolus, ut see principibus subdant: that is, he teacheth all sorts, whether he be Priest, or Monk, or else Apostle, that they should submit themselves under their Princes. &c. And S. Augustine writing ad Bonifacium, sayth in much like sort: Quicunque autem legibus imperatoris, 3quae, pro Dei veritate feruntur, obtemperare non vult, acquirit grande supplicium, that is, whosoever refuseth to obey the laws of the Emperor, which make for the verity of God, incurreth the danger of great punishment. &c. Also in an other place, writing con •ra Cresconium, 4hath these words: In hoc enim reges sicut eis divini•us praecipitur, Deo seruiunt, in quantum reges, si in suo regno bona jubeant, mala prohibeant, non solùm quae pertinent ad humanam s•cietarem, verumetiam quae ad divinam religioné &c. that is, Kings according as it is enjoined them of ⟨p. 7⟩God, do serve God in that they are kings, if they in their kingdom command those things that be good, & forbid things that be evil, such as appertain not only to human society, but also to Gods Religion. &c. And yet to come more near to the Popes own Doctors, Thomas Aquine not much discrepant from the injunction of the Apostle above alleged,