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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. 2, part 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. 2, part 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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At last, answer was made unto him thus, that it was trueth which he affirmed, nevertheless the same was not meet for this present time, for that it could not be taught or published, without the detriment of the Apostolic sea: wherefore he should abstain hereafter from the *Epistles of S. Paul, and so return again safe to Bononie, & there profess *Philosophy. Thus, as he was returned to Bononie, and all men there were desirous to know of his case, how he sped at Rome, openly in the pulpit he declared all things in order as they were done, and gave God thanks. Herewith Campeius being more offended then before, obtained of the Pope, that the general of the order should remove the said John Mollius from Bononie, and place him some other where. So Mollius from thence was sent to Naples,3 & there was appointed reader and preacher in the Monastery of S. Laurence. But Petrus the Viceroy there, not abiding his doctrine, so nearly sought his death that he had much ado to escape with life, and so departing from thence, he went wandering into Italy from place to place, preaching Christ, wheresoever he came. Not long after this, when Cardinal Campeius was dead he was called again unto Bononie by a good Abbot named De Grassis. an. 1543. where he renewed again the reading of S. Pauls Epistle, after a secret sort,4 as he did before, but it could not be long undiscovered. Whereupon by the means of Cardinall de Capo, and by Bonaventura the general, he was apprehended the second time, and brought to Faventia, & laid there in a filthy & stinking prison, where he continued four years, no man having leave once to come to him. During which time of his endurance he wrote a Commentary upon the books of Moses but that labour by the malignity of the adversaries was suppressed.5 At length through the intercession of the Earle Petilianus, and of the foresaid good Abbot De Grassis, he was again delivered, and sent to Ravenna, where he made his abode a few months with the Abbot ad S. Vitalem, & there again taught the Gospel of Christ, as before:6