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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.
The like is to be affirmed also of other presumptuous titles of like ambition,1 as the head of the universal church, the Vicar of Christ in earth, Prince of Priests, with such like, which all be new found terms, strange to the cares of the old primitive writers and Councils, and not received openly and commonly before the time of Boniface the third, and Phocas the aforesaid.
The like is to be affirmed also of other presumptious titles of like ambition,1 as the head of the vniuersal church, the Uicar of Christ in earth, Prince of Priestes, with such like, which all be new found termes, straunge to the cares of the old primitiue writers and Councels, and not receiued openly and commonly before the tyme of Boniface the third, and Phocas the aforesayd.
- 1Universally pontifex. Caput universalis Ecclesia. Christi on terris vicarius. Princeps sacerdotū. &▪Vniuersali• pontifex. Caput vniuersalis Ecclesia. Christi on terris vicarius. Princeps sacerdotū. &▪
Now remaineth the name of the Pope, which of his nature, and by his first origin, being a word of the Syracusan speech called [Greek or Hebrew],1 and signifieth as much as Pater, Father, was then used and frequented of them in the old time, not so as proper only to the Bishop of Rome, but common and indifferent to all other Bishops or personages, whosoever were of worthy excellence, as is partly before declared. But now contrarily, the generality of this name is so restrained and abused, that not only it is appropriate to the Bishop of Rome, but also distincteth and discevereth the authority and preeminence of that Bishop alone from all other Bishops, for which cause it is now worthily come into contempt and execration. No less is to be rejected also the name of universalis, or oecumenicus, pontifex, Summus orbis Episcopus, Caput universalis Ecclesiae, Christi in terris, Princeps vicarius sacerdotū, &c. Al which terms and vocables, tending to the derogation of other Bishops & Patriarchs, as they were never received nor allowed in Rome (if we believe Gregory) during the time of the Primitive church, so now are worthily of us refused.