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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 that they suffer no such within their shires and circuits, to preach or to keep either house or family either yet to use any handicraft or occupations or other trades of merchandise, or else to solace themselves any ways, or frequent the company of Christen men. And furthermore if such public and known heretics shall chance to dye (although not so denounced by the Church) yet in this so great a crime, let him and them want Christian burial, and let no offerings or oblations be made for them nor received. His goods and substance also from the time of his death, according to the Canonical sanctions being confiscate, let no such enjoy them to whom they appertain, till that by the ecclesiastical judges having power and authority in this behalf, sentence upon that his or their crime of heresy, be declared, and promulgate, & let such owners as be found suspect or noted with any such suspicion of heresy, before a competent and ecclesiastical judge, according to the consideration and exigence of that suspicion, and according to the quality of the person, by the arbitrement of such a judge: show and declare his proper & own innocency with devotion as beseemeth in that behalf, And if in his purgation, being Canonically interdicted, he do fail, or be not able Canonically to make his purgation, or that he refuse to take his oath by damnable obstinacy, to make such purgation: then let him be condemned as an heretic. But such as thorough negligence or thorough slothfulness, shall omit to show their said innocency and to make such purgation, let them be excommunicate, and so long put out from the company of Christen men, till that they shall make condigne satisfaction: so that if by the space of one whole year they shall remain in such excommunication, then let them as heretics be condemned.1 And further, if any shall be found culpable in any point of the foresaid pestiferous doctrine of the Archheretics aforesaid, or in any Article thereof, whether it be by the report of the seditious, or else well disposed: let them yet be punished, according to the Canons. If only through infamy and suspicion of the foresaid Articles or any of them, any man shall be found suspect, & in his purgation Canonical for this thing being interdicted, shall fail: let him be accounted as a man convict, & as a convict person by the Canons let him be punished.
and that they suffer no such within theyr shyres and circuites, to preach or to keepe either house or familye either yet to vse any handicrafte or occupations or other trades of merchaundise, or els to solace themselues anye wayes, or frequent the company of Christen men. And furthermore if suche publike and knowne heretiques shall chaunce to dye (although not so denounced by the Church) yet in this so great a crime, let hym and them want Christian buriall, and let no offeringes or oblations be made for them nor receiued. Hys goodes and substance also frō ye time of his death, according to ye Canonical sanctions being confiscate, let no such enioy them to whō they appertayne, till that by the ecclesiasticall iudges hauing power and authoritie in this behalfe, sentence vpon that his or their crime of heresie, be declared, and promulgate, & let such owners as be found suspect or noted with anye suche suspition of heresie, before a competent and ecclesiasticall iudge, according to the consideration and exigence of that suspicion, and according to the quallitie of the person, by ye arbitrement of such a iudge: shew and declare hys proper & own innocēcy with deuotion as beseemeth in that behalf, And if in hys purgation, being Canonically interdicted, he do fayle, or be not able Canonically to make his purgation, or that he refuse to take hys othe by damnable obstinacie, to make suche purgation: then let him be condemned as an hereticke. But such as thorough negligence or thorough slothfulnes, shall omit to shew their sayd innocencie and to make such purgation, let them be excommunicate, and so long put out from the company of Christen men, til yt they shall make condigne satisfactiō: so that if by the space of one whole yeare they shall remayne in such excommunication, then let them as heretickes be condēned.