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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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This definition of S. Augustine, standing with the things before premised, now here joineth the question between us and the Papists, whether the Metropolitan Church of Rome, with the Archbishop of the same, ought to be preferred before other Metropolitan churches & Archbishops, through universal Christendom or not? To the answer whereof, if the voice of order might here be heard, it would say: give to things that be matches & like, like honour, to things unlike, unlike honour, &c. Wherefore, seeing the sea of Rome is a Patriarchal sea appointed by the Primitive Church, and the Bishop thereof an Archbishop limited within his own bordering churches, which the Council of Nice calleth suburbicas Ecclesias, as other Archbishops be: he ought therefore orderly to have the honour of an Archbishop (ordering himself thereafter) & such outward preeminence as to other Archbishops is due. More if he do require, he breaketh the rule of right order, he falleth into presumption, and doth wrong unto his fellows, and they also do wrong unto themselves, whosoever they be, which feeding his humour of ambition, give more unto him than the foresaid rule of order doth require. For so much as they yield to him more than is his right, so much they take from them selves, which is due to them. And the same is the cause, why both Gregory and Pelagius his predecessor reprehendeth them, which gave to the Archbishop of Constantinople, ⟨p. 17⟩that,1 which now the bishop of Rome claneth to himself charging them with the breach of order in these words: Nedum privatim aliquod daretur uni, honore debito sacerdotes privarentur universi, that is, least that while any singular thing is given to due person,2 all other Priests be deprived of their due honour. And for the like case Pelagius exhorteth that no Priest do give to any one Archbishop, the name of universal bishop, ne sibi debitum subtrahat cum alteri honorem offert indebitum. That is, least (saith he) in so doing, he take from himself his due honour, while he yieldeth that; which is not due to another. And also in the same Epistle: Quia si summus Patriarcha universalis dicitur, Patriarcharum nomen caeteris derogatur. For (saith he) if he be called the chief universal Patriarch, then is the name of Patriarchs derogated from other. &c. Wherefore as is said, seeing the bishop of Rome is an Archbishop, as other be.