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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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In this constitution of Justinian, although the Metropolitan be placed above the Bishop,1 and the Archbishop above the Metropolitan: yet notwithstanding by this is sufficiently confuted the forged constitution of Clement Anacletus, Anicetus, Stephanus, & Felix: who in their Epistles ⟨p. 12⟩decretal, do join together in one form and order, both Archbishop and Metropolitan,2 and above them both do place the Patriarch, and above the Patriarch, the Apostolical sea to wit the Bishop of Rome, as may appear in reading the first Epistle of Clement. In illis autem civitatibus &c. the second Epistle of Anacletus. Art. 4. provinciae. dist. 99. provincie multo, and the Epistle of Anicetus art. 23. dist. 99 cap. Nulli Archiepiscopi. Also the Epistle of Pope Stephen the first, Art. 5. (where note by the way, that Gratianus referreth this place of the Epistle to Pope Lucius.) Item the Epistle of Pope Felix the second, Art. 12. in which all foresaid Epistles, this order and difference of degrees is taken, that the first and principal place is given to Primates or Patriarchs, the second to Metropolitans or Archbishops, the third to Bishops, and finally above all these is extolled the Apostolical sea of the Bishop of Rome,3 contrary to all that which before hath been alleged out of Justinian, the Council of Nice & of Antioch, &c. Whereby it may appear that either Justinian in preferring Archbishops above Metropolitans, did not read these Epistles decretal, if they were unfeigned, or if they were forged, they which forged the said Epistles in their names, did not well advise that Justinian had written in this matter before.
In this constitution of Iustinian, although the Metropolitane be placed aboue the Byshop,1 and the Archbishop aboue the Metrapolitane: yet notwithstanding by this is sufficiently confuted the forged constitution of Clement Anacletus, Anicetus, Stephanus, & Felix: who in their Epistles ⟨p. 12⟩