A67926:1778
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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And when it was answered again by one that they maintained Gods service: nay, said Nicolas, it maintaineth great houses as Abbeys and other. Item, that men should say their Pater noster, and Ave Maria, in English, with the Creed, and declared the same in English. Item, that the Sacrament of the altar was not as it was pretended, the flesh, blood, and bone of Christ: but a Sacrament, that is, a Typical signification of his holy body. To William Wingrave moreover, it was objected that he should say, that there was no Purgatory: and if there were any Purgatory, and every Mass, that is said should deliver a soul out of Purgatory, there should be never a soul there: for there be moe Masses said in a day, then there be bodies buried in a month. John Longland Bishop of Lincoln. | Simon Wisdom of Burford | Simon Wisdom of Burford was charged in Judgement, for having three books in English: one was the Gospels in English, an other was the Psalter, the third was the Sum of the holy Scripture in English. Doctor Prinne, Commissary to the Bishop of Lincoln. | James Algar, or Ayger. An. 1530. | It was articulated & objected to James Ayger,1 first that he speaking to a certain Doctor of Divinity, named Aglonby, said that every true Christen man living after the laws of God, and observing his Commandments, is a Priest as well as he. &c. Item, that he said, that he would not his executors to deal any penny for his soul, after his death, for he would do it with his own hands while he was alive: & that his conscience gave him, that the soul, so soon as it departeth out of the body, goeth straight either to heaven, or to hell. Item, when Doct. Aglonby aforesaid had alleged to him the place of S. Mat. 16. Thou art Peter. &c. ⟨p. 986⟩He answered him again with that which followeth in the Gospel after: Get thee after me Satan, &c. Item, the said James hearing of a certain Church to be robbed, said openly, it made no great force, for the Church hath enough already. | John French of Longwitam. At Longwitam. An. 1530. | Against John French likewise these three Articles were objected.2 1. That he believed not the body of Christ, flesh, blood, and bone to be in the Sacrament. 2. That he was not confessed to any Priest of long time. 3. That Priests had not power to absolve from sins, &c.