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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.
Item, the said Margery said to this deponent, that the people did worship devils which fell from heaven with Lucifer, which devils in their fall to the earth, entered into the Images which stand in the Churches,1 and have long lurked & dwelled in them, so that the people worshipping those Images, commit Idolatry.
Item, the said Margery said to this deponent, that the people did worship deuils which fell frō heauen with Lucifer, which deuils in theyr fall to the earth, entred into the Images which stand in the Churches,1 and haue long lurked & dwelled in thē, so that the people worshipping those Images, commit Idolatry.
- 1Against Image worship.
Item, she said more to this deponent that holy bread & holy water were but tri•es of no effect or force, & that the belles are to be cast out of the Church, and that they are excommunicate which first ordained them.
Item, she sayd more to this deponent that holy bread & holy water were but tri•es of no effect or force, & that the belles are to be cast out of the Church, and that they are excommunicate which first ordeined them.
Moreover that she should not be burned, although she were convict of Lollardy, for that she had a charter of salvation in her body.