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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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Luther, his adherents and disciples, as of other heretics before named, and also for crediting, and maintaining the errors and heresies, and damnable opinions contained in the said books and writings, worthily to be and have been an heretic, and that thou by the pretence of the premisses art fallen again most damnably into heresy, and we pronounce that thou art and hast been a relapsed heretic, and hast incurred and oughtest to incur the pain and punishment of a relapse, and we so decree & declare, and also condemn thee thereunto, and that by the pretence of the premisses, thou hast even by the law, incurred the sentence of greater excommunication, and thereby we pronounce and declare thee to have been and to be excommunicate, and clearly discharge, exonerate and disgrade thee from all privilege and prerogative of the Ecclesiastical orders, and also deprive thee of all Ecclesiastical office and benefice: also we pronounce and declare thee by this our sentence or decree, the which we here promulgate and declare in these writings, that tho• art actually to be degraded, deposed, and deprived as followeth.
Luther, his adherentes and disciples, as of other heretikes before named, and also for crediting, and maintayning the errours and heresies, and damnable opinions contained in the said books and writings, worthely to be and haue bene an hereticke, and that thou by the pretence of the premisses art fallen again most damnably into heresie, and we pronounce that thou art and hast bene a relapsed hereticke, and hast incurred and oughtest to incurre the payne and punishment of a relapse, and we so decree & declare, and also condemne thee thereunto, and that by the pretence of the premisses, thou hast euen by the law, incurred the sentence of greater excommunication, and thereby we pronounce and declare thee to haue bene and to be excommunicate, and clearely discharge, exonerate and disgrade thee from all priuiledge and prerogatiue of the Ecclesiasticall orders, and also depriue thee of all Ecclesiasticall office and benefice: also we pronounce and declare thee by this our sentence or decree, the which wee here promulgate and declare in these writinges, that tho• art actually to be disgraded, deposed, and depriued as followeth.