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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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Anicetus and other, joining together the office of Patriarchs & Primates,1 do divide the same from the order of Metropolitans or Archbishops, alleging therein the constitution of the Apostles and their successors, that is, to be found false by the Canons of the Apostles, by the Council of Nice, and by the council of Antioch with other moe. For in the Canons of the Apostles, where in every Canon almost, mention is made of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, no word is there touched,2 neither of any order above the Bishop, or lower then the Deacon, save only in the 33. Canon, setting an order among bishops, the Canon willeth the Bishops of every nation to know their first or chief bishop, & him to be taken for the head of them: he saith not the head of the church, or head of the world, but the head of those bishops. And where?3 not in Rome only, but plainly and expressly in every nation, for so the words purport, [Greek or Hebrew]. That is, the bishops of every nation ought to know the first or chief […] them, &c. Moreover, the Council of Antioch reciting […] foresaid Canon word for word, expoundeth the […] plainly,4 in stead of [Greek or Hebrew], writing [Greek or Hebrew]: Which is as much to say, as Metropolitan: and in the end of the said Canon, calleth him [Greek or Hebrew], Id est, Metropolitanum, 6. q 3. per singulas. Whereby it is concluded, that to be false, that Clement and Anacletus, and Anicetus be reported (but falsedly) to put a difference between Primates or Patriarchs,5 and Metropolitans or Archbishops. Whereas by sufficient authority it is to be proved, that in the old church both Primates, first bishops bishops of the first seat, Patriarchs, Metropolitans, bishops of the Mother city, and Archbishops were all one. First, that Primates and Metropolitans were both one, is before declared by the Canons of the Apostles,6 & by the Council of Antioch aforesaid. Again, that Patriarchs and Archbishops were all one, it is evident Ex Novella Justiniani. cap. 23. where the said constitution reciting the 4. Patriarchs (above mentioned) calleth them by the name of Archbishops. And a little after calleth the Patriarch of Constantinople, Archbishop, by these words: [Greek or Hebrew], That is, which be under the Archbishop and Patriarch of Constantinople.