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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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Brusierd. I know certain sanctions of the holy fathers, but such as you speak of to be devised by mens dreams, I know none.
Brusierd. I knowe certaine sanctions of the holy fathers, but such as you speake of to be deuised by mens dreames, I knowe none.
Bilney. Now then let us set and compare these two together, & so shall you easily understand the Bishop of Rome whom they call the Pope, to sit in the temple of God,1 as God, and to be extolled above all that is named God. It is written, The temple of the Lord is holy, which is you. 2Therefore the conscience of man is the temple of the holy Ghost: in which temple I will prove the Pope to sit as God,3 and to be exalted above all that is called God. For who so contemneth the decalogue or the table of the commandments of God, there is but a small punishment for him, neither is that punishment to death: but contrariwise he that shall contemn or violate the constitutions which you call the sanctions of men, is counted by all mens judgement guilty of death. What is this, but the high bishop of Rome to sit & to reign in the temple of God, that is, in mans conscience, as God?
Bilney. Now then let vs set and compare these two together, & so shall you easily vnderstand the Bishop of Rome whom they call the Pope, to sitte in the temple of God,1 as God, and to be extolled aboue all that is named God. It is written, The temple of the Lorde is holy, which is you. 2Therefore the conscience of man is the temple of the holy Ghost: in whiche temple I will proue the Pope to sit as God,