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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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8. Helps and releases that may shorten the time of their purgation, be the Popes pardons and indulgences, sacrifice of the alter, dirges, and trentals, prayer, fasting meritorious deeds out of the treasure house of the Church, alms, and charitable deeds of the living in satisfying gods Justice for them, &c.
8. Helpes and releases that may shorten the time of their purgation, be the Popes pardons and indulgences, sacrifice of the alter, dyrges, and trentals, prayer, fasting meritorious deedes out of the treasure house of the Church, almes, and charitable deedes of the liuing in satisfiyng gods Iustice for them, &c.
9. Lack of belief of Purgatory, bringeth to hell.
9. Lacke of beliefe of Purgatory, bringeth to hell.
Many other false errors and great deformities, heresies, absurdities, vanities, & follies, besides their blasphemous railings and contumelies, may be noted in the said latter church of Rome,1 wherein they have made manifest defection from the old faith of Rome, as in depriving the Church of one kind of the Sacrament, in taking from the people the knowledge and reading of Gods word, in praying and speaking to the people and administering sacraments in a tongue unknown, in mistaking the authority of the keys, in their unwritten verities, in making the authority of scripture insufficient, in untrue judgement of the Church and the wrong notes of the same, in the supremacy of the sea of Rome, in their wrong opinion of Antichrist.
Many other false errours and great deformities, heresies, absurdities, vanities, & follies, bisides their blasphemous raylinges and contumelies, may be noted in the said latter church of Rome,