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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.
the other pertaineth to the true believers in the Son of God, to admonish also the Magistrates erring or transgressing in their office. &c.
the other pertaineth to the true beleuers in the sonne of God, to admonish also the Magistrates erryng or transgressing in their office. &c.
And as these properly belong to the function of the Ecclesiastical sort:1 so hath the civil governor or Magistrate again his proper charge & office to him assigned, which is, to see the administration of justice & judgement, to defend with power the right of the weak that suffer wrong, to defend from oppression the poor oppressed, to minister with equality, that which is right and equal to every man: to provide laws good & godly, to see the execution of the same as cause moveth: especially to see the law of God maintained, to promote Christs glory & Gospel, in setting up & sending out good Preachers, in maintaining the same, in providing Bishops to be elected that be faithful, in removing or else correcting the same being faulty or negligent, in congregating the Clergy when need is of any coū sell or election, to hear their learning in causes propounded, & according to the truth learned, to direct his judgement, in disposing such rites & ordinances for the church, as make to edification not to the destruction thereof, in conserving the discipline of the Church, and setting all things in a congrue order. Briefly, the office of the civil ruler & Magistrate extendeth to minister justice and judgement in all Courts as well temporal, as Ecclesiastical: to have correction over all transgressors, whether they be laymen or persons Ecclesiastical. And finally all such things as belong to the moving of the sword, whatsoever, that is to say, all outward punishment, is referred to the jurisdiction of the secular Magistrate, under whose subjection the ordinance of God hath subjected all orders and states of men.
And as these properly belong to the functiō of the Ecclesiasticall sort:1