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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.
A Christen man after the Popes making defined.
After the Popes Catholic Religion,1 a true Christen man is thus defined: first to be baptised in the Latin tongue (where the Godfathers profess they can not tell what) then confirmed by the Bishop: the Mother of the child to be purified. After he be grown in years, then to come to the Church, to keep his fasting days, to fast the Lent, to come under benedicite. that is, to be confessed of the Priest, to do his penance, at Easter to take his rites to hear Mass, and divine service, to set up candles before Images to creep to the Cross, to take holy bread and holy water, to go on procession, to carry his palms & candle, and to take ashes, to fast the Ember days, Rogation days, & vigils, to keep the holy days, to pay his tithes and offering days, to go on pilgrimage, to buy pardons, to worship his maker over the Priests head, to receive the Pope for his supreme head and to obey his laws, to receive S. Nicolas Clerks, to have his beads, & to give to the high altar, to take orders, if he will be Priest, to say his Matins,2 to sing his Mass, to lift up fair, to keep his vow, and not to marry. When he is sick to be aneled and take the rites of holy Church, to be buried in the church yard, to be rung for, to be song for, to be buried in a Fryers coal, to find a soul Priest. &c.
AFter the Popes Catholike Religion,1 a true Christen man is thus defined: first to be baptised in the Latine tongue (where the Godfathers professe they can not tell what) then confirmed by the Byshop: the Mother of the childe to be purified. After he be growen in yeares, then to come to the Church, to keepe his fasting dayes, to fast the Lent, to come vnder benedicite. that is, to be confessed of the Priest, to doe his penance, at Easter to take his rites to heare Masse, and diuine seruice, to set vppe candels before Images to creepe to ye Crosse, to take holy bread and holy water, to go on processiō, to cary his palmes & candle, and to take ashes, to fast the Ember daies, Rogation daies, & vigiles, to keepe the holy dayes, to pay his tithes and offeringe daies, to go on pilgrimage, to buy pardons, to worship his maker ouer the Priestes head, to receaue the Pope for his supreame head and to obey his lawes, to receaue S. Nicolas Clerks, to haue his beades, & to giue to the high altar, to take orders, if he will be Priest, to saye his Mattens,