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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.
As touching the name likewise of the high Priest, or high priesthood, neither do I deny but that it hath been found in old monuments and records of ancient times, but in such wise and sort, as it hath been common to Bishops indifferently, and not singularly attributed to any one Bishop or sea. Whereof testimony we have out of the .vij. general Council. dist 38. cap. Omnes, where the Bishops office is called Summum sacerdotium, 1the high Priesthood, in these words: Substantia summi sacerdotii nostri sunt eloquia divinitus tradita .i. vera divinarum Scripturarū disciplina. etc. That is, the substance (say they) of our high Priesthood is the word of discipline of holy scriptures given us from above. &c.
As touching the name likewise of the high Priest, or hyghpriesthood, neither doe I denye but that it hath bene found in old monuments and recordes of auncient times, but in such wise and sort, as it hath beene common to Byshops indifferently, and not singularly attributed to any one Byshoppe or sea. Whereof testimony we haue out of the .vij. generall Councell. dist 38. cap. Omnes, where the Byshoppes office is called Summum sacerdotium, 1the hygh Priesthood, in these wordes: Substantia summi sacerdotii nostri sunt eloquia diuinitus tradita .i. vera diuinarum Scripturarū disciplina. etc. That is, the substance (say they) of our hygh Priesthood is the word of discipline of holy scriptures geuen vs from aboue. &c.
- 1Dist. 83. cap. omnes Summus sacerdos, Summum sacerdotium.
And likewise the Council of Agatha, maketh relation De pontificibus in summo sacerdotio constitutis, of Bishops set in the high Priesthood,1 meaning not of any one, but indefinitely & indifferently of whomsoever. 12. q. 3. cap. Pontifices. Also Fabianus Bishop of Rome, an. 240. writing in general to his brethren, and to all Bishops and Ministers Ecclesiastical doth attribute to them the same title of Summum sacerdotium, in these words, Deus ergo, fratres, qui praeordinavit vos,