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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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2. Item, that he was a Christen man & professed Christs Faith, and the determinations of holy Church concerning the seven Sacraments, and other articles of the Catholic faith.
2. Itē, that he was a Christen man & professed Christes Fayth, and the determinatiōs of holy Church concernyng the seuen Sacramentes, and other articles of the Catholicke fayth.
3. Item, that it was not lawful for any man (especially a lay man) erroneously and obstinately to hold, teach, or defend any opinion contrary unto the determinations of the said church, and that the person so doing is an heretic.
3. Item, that it was not lawfull for any man (especially a lay man) erroneously and obstinatly to hold, teach, or defend any opinion contrary vnto the determinations of the sayd church, and that the person so doing is an hereticke.
4. Item, that within one of the 12. months of the year of our Lord. 1511. he had been detected before the Bishop of Lincoln that then was,1 of divers points of heresy: as that he had affirmed that the very body and blood of christ was not in the sacrament of the altar, but material bread and wine, and that he had received it at Easter as holy bread, and likewise had affirmed that the crucifix & other Images in the Church were not to be worshipped, and also that confession made unto a priest, was of none effect, with divers other like opinions and heresies.
4. Item, that within one of the 12. monthes of the yeare of our Lord. 1511. he had bene detected before the Bishop of Lincolne that then was,