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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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The like also may be inferred & proved by the stories & examples of our kings here in England, as king Offa, king Egbertus, Edgarus, Aluredus, Athelwoldus, Canutus, Edwardus. William Conqueror, Wilhel. Rufus, Henricus the first, Henricus the second, till the time of king John and after. Whose dealing as well in Ecclesiastical cases, as in temporal, is a sufficient demonstration to prove what injury the Popes, in these latter days, have done unto the Emperors their lawful governors & Magistrates: in usurping such fullness of power & jurisdiction over them, to whom properly they owe subjection, contrary to the steps & example of the old Romaine Bishops their ancestors, & therefore have incurred the danger of a Premunire, worthy to be deprived. Although it is not to be denied, but that Ecclesiastical ministers and servitors have their power also committed unto them, after their sort, of the Lord: yet it becometh every man to know his own place & standing, & there to keep him, wherein his own precinct doth pale him & not rashly to break out into other mens walks. As it is not lawful for a civil Magistrate to intermeddle with a Bishops or a Preachers function: so unseemly & unorderly it is again that Boniface the viij. should have borne before him the temporal male, & the naked sword of the Emperor, or that any Pope should bear a triple crown, or take upon him like a Lord and King. Wherefore let every man consider the compass & limitation of his charge, & exceed no farther. The office of a Bishop or seruiture Ecclesiastical, was in the old law to offer sacrifice,1 to burn incense, to pray for the people, to expound the law, to minister in the tabernacle, with which office it was not lawful for any Prince or man else to intermeddle, as we read how Uzziah was punished for offering incense, & an other for touching the Ark: so now the office of Christian Ministers is to preach the word, to minister Sacraments, to pray, to bind and loose, where cause urgently requireth, to judge in spiritual cases, to publish & denounce free reconciliation, & remission in the name of Christ, to erect & comfort troubled consciences with the rich grace of the Gospel, to teach the people the true difference betwixt the law and the Gospel, whereof the one belongeth to such as be not in Christ, and come not to him:
The like also may be inferred & proued by the stories & exāples of our kyngs here in Englād, as kyng Offa, kyng Egbertus, Edgarus, Aluredus, Athelwoldus, Canutus, Edwardus. William Conquerour, Wilhel. Rufus, Henricus the first, Henricus the second, till the tyme of kyng Iohn and after. Whose dealyng as well in Ecclesiasticall cases, as in tēporall, is a sufficient demonstration to proue what iniury the Popes, in these latter dayes, haue done vnto the Emperours their lawfull gouernours & Magistrates: in vsurpyng such fulnes of power & iurisdictiō ouer them, to whō properly they owe subiection, cōtrary to the steps & example of the old Romaine Byshops their aunciters, & therfore haue incurred the daūger of a Premunire, worthy to be depriued. Although it is not to be denyed, but that Ecclesiasticall ministers and seruitures haue their power also committed vnto thē, after their sort, of the Lord: yet it becommeth euery man to know his owne place & standyng, & there to keepe him, wherein his owne precinct doth pale him & not rashly to breake out into other mēs walkes. As it is not lawfull for a ciuile Magistrate to intermedle with a Byshops or a Preachers function: so vnseemely & vnorderly it is agayne that Boniface the viij. should haue borne before him the tēporall male, & the naked sword of the Emperour, or that any Pope should beare a triple crowne, or take vpon him like a Lord and Kyng. Wherfore let euery man consider the compasse & limitation of his charge, & exceede no farther. The office of a Bishop or seruiture Ecclesiasticall, was in the old law to offer sacrifice,