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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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The x. cause was also, for that Gratianus the Emperor §10made a law, that all men should retain that religion which Damasus bishop of Rome, and Peter bishop of Alexandria did hold. Sozom lib. 7. cap. 4.
The x. cause was also, for that Gratianus the Emperour §10made a law, that all men should retaine that religiō which Damasus bishop of Rome, and Peter bishop of Alexandria did hold. Sozom lib. 7. cap. 4.
And also, if it happened the bishop of Rome to disallow §11the ordering of any minister or ministers, the Popes perceiving how diligent and ready they were to seek their favour, and to send up their messengers to Rome for their purgation, took thereby no little manner of exaltation. Theodoret. lib. 5. cap. 23.
And also, if it happened the bishop of Rome to disalow §11the ordering of any minister or ministers, the Popes perceiuing how diligent and redy they were to seeke their fauour, and to send vp their messengers to Rome for their purgation, tooke therby no little maner of exaltation. Theodoret. lib. 5. cap. 23.
Besides these aforesaid, the bishops of Rome had also §12an other artificial practise, that in sending out their letters abroad, as they did to many, in all their Epistles (if the Epistles be theirs, and not forged) ever they were harping of the greatness of their name, and of their Apostolic sea, and of the primacy of S. Peter, their predecessor and prince of all the Apostles, &c. And this they used in every letter, when so ever they wrote to any, as appeareth in all their letters decretal, namely, in the letters of Miltiades, Marcellus, and Marcus, &c.