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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 third point wherein the church of Rome hath broken and is departed from the Church of Rome,1 is the form of stile & title annexed to the Bishop of that Sea. As where he is called Pope, most holy father, vicar general, & vicar of Christ, successor of Peter, universal Bishop, Prince of Priests. head of the Church universal Summus orbis pontifex, Stupor mundi, head Bishop of the world, the admiration of the world, neither God nor man, but a thing between both. &c. for all these terms be given him in Popish books. Albeit the name Pope, being a Greek name, derived of [Greek or Hebrew], which soundeth as much as Father, in the Syracusan speech, may peradventure seem more tolerable, as which hath been used in the old time among Bishops, for so Austen was called of the Council of Aphrike, Hierome, 2of Boniface & other. Also Cyprian Bishop of Carthage, was called Papa. 24. q. 1. cap. loquitur & dist. 50. cap. De eo tamen. Item Clodovaeus or (as Rheanus calleth him) Ludovicus, first Christian king of France, calleth a certain simpler Bishop, Papam. Hierome also in his Epistle to Chromatius calleth Valerianus, by the name of Pope: & likewise writing to Eustachium, and Fabiola, he calleth Epiphanius beatum Papam. In the Apologies of Athanasius, we read oft times that he was called Papa, and Archiepiscopus. Ruffinus also Lib. 2. cap. 26. calleth him. Pontificem maximum: Also Aurelius President in the vi. Council of Carthage was called of the said Council, Papa, ex cap. 4. vi. Concil. Carthag. And before this Eleutherius Bishop of Rome, writing to king Lucius the first Christian king in this land, calleth him in his Epistle, the vicar of Christ. &c. But that any of these terms were so peculiarly applied to the Bishop of ⟨p. 9⟩Rome, that other bishops were excluded from the same, or that any one bishop above the rest, had the name of Ecumenical, or universal, or head, to the derogation of other Bishops, or with such glory as is now annexed to the same: that is not to be found neither in histories of the old time, nor in any example of the primitive Church, nor in the testimonies of ancient approved Doctors. First before the Council of Nice,3 it is evident by Pope Pius the ij. that there was no respect had to the church of Rome, but every church then was ruled by his own governance, till the year of our Lord, 340.