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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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¶The Submission of M. Thomas Bilney.
The fourth day of December, the bishop of London with the other bishops his assistants,1 assembled again in the chapter house of Westminster, whether also M. Bilney was brought, and was exhorted & admonished to abjure and recant: who answered that he would stand to his con science. Then the Bishop of London with the other Byshops, Ex officio, did publish the depositions of the witnesses, with his Articles and answers, commanding that they should be read. That done, the Bishop exhorted him again to deliberate with himself, whether he would return to the Church, and renounce his opinions or no, and bad him to depart into a void place, and there to deliberate with himself. Which done, the Bishop asked him again if he would return. Who answered: Fiat justicia & judicium in nomine domini, 2and being divers times admonished to abjure, he would make no other answer, but Fiat justitia. &c. And haec est dies quam fecit Dominus, exultemus & laetemur in ea. Then the Bishop, after deliberation, putting off his cap, said: In nomine patris & filij & spiritus sancti. Amen. Exurgat Deus & dissipentur inimici eius: and making a cross on his forehead and his breast, by the counsel of the other Bishops, he gave sentence against M. Bilney, being there present in this manner.
THe fourth day of Decēber, the bishop of London with the other bishops his assistauntes,1 assembled againe in the chapter house of Westminster, whether also M. Bilney was brought, and was exhorted & admonished to abiure and recant: who aunswered that he would stand to his cō science. Then the Bishop of London with the other Byshops, Ex officio, did publish the depositions of the witnesses, with his Articles and aunsweres, commaunding that they should be read. That done, the Byshop exhorted hym agayne to deliberate with himselfe, whether he woulde returne to the Church, and renoūce his opinions or no, and badde him to depart into a voyd place, and there to deliberate with himselfe. Which done, the Bishoppe asked him agayne if he would returne. Who aunswered: Fiat iusticia & iudicium in nomine domini,