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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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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, 2& omnes qui Summo sacerdotio funguntur. &c God which hath preordained you brethren, and all them which bear the office of high priesthood. 3. q. 1. cap. Deus ergo. With like phrase of speech, Anacletus also in his second Epistle,3 speaking of Bishops in general, calleth them Summos sacerdotes: unde, inquit, liquit quod summi sacerdotes. i. Episcopi a Deo sunt judicandi. &c. The high priests, that is, Bishops, saith he. And moreover in the same place calleth them Apostles, and successors of the Apostles. &c, So doth Innocentius the first, an. 405. as appeareth. dist. 61. cap. Miserum. Item Zosimus Bishop of the said City of Rome, an. 420, as witnesseth. dist. 59. cap. 1. who speaketh de summo sacerdotio, 4that is, of high priesthood, not only of the church of Rome, but of all other churches. Urbanus the first was Bishop of Rome, an. 226. who in his writings alleged by Gratian, referreth the name & place Summi pontificis, of the high Bishop, not only to the seat of Rome, but uniformly to every Bishop, as appeareth in the words of the dist. 51. cap. Si officia. &c.
And likewise the Councell of Agatha, maketh relation De pontificibus in sūmo sacerdotio constitutis, of Bishops set in the high Priesthood,1 meanyng not of any one, but indiffynitly & indifferently of whomsoeuer. 12. q. 3. cap. Pontifices. Also Fabianus Byshop of Rome, an. 240. wryting in generall to his brethren, and to all Byshoppes and Ministers Ecclesiasticall doth attribute to them the same title of Summum sacerdotium, in these words, Deus ergo, fratres, qui praeordinauit vos,