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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.
*Of Matrimony.
What order and rule S. Paul hath set for marriage in his Epistle to the Corinthians it is manifest.1 Whereas he preferreth single life in such as have the gift of continence, before the married state, so again in such as have not the gift he preferreth the coupled life before the other: willing every such one to have his wife because of fornication. Furthermore, how the said Apostle alloweth a Bishop to be the husband of one wife (so he exceed not to the manner of the Jews, which were permitted to have many) & how vehemently he reproveth them that restrain marriage,2 his letters to Timothy do record. Moreover, what degrees be permitted by the law of God to marry, in the book of Leu. ⟨p. 29⟩is to be seen. cha, 18. Also how children ought not to marry without consent of their parents,3 by manifest examples of the Scriptures it is notorious.
WHat order and rule S. Paule hath set for mariage in his Epistle to the Corinthians it is manifest.1 Wheras he preferreth single life in such as haue the gift of continence, before the maried state, so againe in such as haue not the gift he preferreth the coupled life before the other: willing euery such one to haue his wife because of fornication. Furthermore, how the said Apostle aloweth a Byshop to be the husband of one wife (so he excede not to the maner of the Iewes, which were permitted to haue many) & how vehemently he reproueth them that restraine mariage,