A67926:1835
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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whereby, having a Pope at his *arbitre, either he should not fail to usurp & take from him the rights, provents, & patrimony of the Church, using him as his chaplain and vassal, or else by little and little utterly to exclude and extinct him and hie authority. For this cause, if ever it were expedient that good Christen Princes look to the tuition, maintenance, defence, and continuance of Christs Church, faith and religion, now is it the time above all other, to provide and beware by all ways possible, least the same neglected, forgotten and not in time relieved, be brought unto extreme *ruin. And therefore the kings highness having singular & special trust and confidence in the wisdoms, discretions, fidelities, diligences and circumspections of his said Orators, (to whom no part of the premisses is unknown, ne how necessary, & in any wise expedient it shall be for perfection of the kings said great and *weighty matter to them committed, to have the said Lord Legate of York, & none other, advanced to the said dignity Papal) willeth, desireth, ordaineth, & expressly chargeth and commandeth his said Orators, and every of them, no less to employ, endeavour, and determine themselves, to solicit, set forth, further, promote, labour and conduce the advancement of the said Lord Legate of York, to that dignity, then they would that thing, which the kings highness most highly, next God & his soul, with all earnestness and fervent mind, doth above all other things, covet and desire, and also no less then they would the speedy obtaining and perfection of all such things, touching the kings said weighty matter committed to their charges: the making or marring whereof, being now the said late Pope deceased, consisteth only in the advancement of the said Lord Legate of York, to the dignity Papal. For (as the kings said Ambassadors may by their wisdoms well think and consider the same must of necessity come, & fortune either to one that is an assured friend to his grace and the French king, or to one that is a manifest enemy to them, favouring the Emperors part, or to one indifferent & mean between both.
wherby, hauing a Pope at his *arbitre, either he should not faile to vsurpe & take from him the rights, prouents, & patrimony of the Churche, vsing him as hys chaplaine and vassal, or els by litle and litle vtterly to exclude and extinct him and hie authoritie. For this cause, if euer it were expedient that good Christen Princes looke to the tuition, maintenance, defence, and continuance of Christes Churche, faith and religion, nowe is it the time aboue all other, to prouide and beware by all wayes possible, least the same neglected, forgotten and not in time relieued, be broght vnto extreme