A67926:1959
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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33 Whether they think it the part of a Christian man, that preachers should exhort men to pilgrimage, or to the worshipping of relics.
33 Whether they thinke it the part of a Christian man, that preachers should exhort men to pilgrimage, or to the worshipping of reliques.
34 Whether that thou Thomas Bilney, being cited upon heresy to appear before my Lord Cardinal, and before the day of thy appearance,1 not having made thy purgation upon those points that thou wast cited, hast preached openly in divers Churches of the City and diocese of London, without sufficient licence from the Bishop, or any other.
34 Whether that thou Thomas Bilney, being cited vpō heresie to appeare before my Lord Cardinall, and before ye day of thy apparance,1 not hauing made thy purgatiō vpon those poyntes that thou wast cited, hast preached openly in diuers Churches of the City and dioces of London, without sufficient licence from the Byshop, or any other.
- 1Relics.Reliques.
Concerning the answers unto these Articles, (gentle Reader) for so much as in the most part of them, Bilney with Arthur seemed to consent and agree (although not fully and directly, but by way and manner of qualifying) yet because he did not expressly deny them, it shall not be needful here to recite them all, save only such wherein he seemed to dissent from them.