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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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Item, that since the feast of Easter aforesaid, he had affirmed & believed that every man that would take upon him to preach the Gospel of Christ clearly,1 had as much power as the Pope. To the which article he answered thus: He that preacheth the word of God, whatsoever he be, and liveth thereafter, he hath the key that bindeth and looseth both in heaven and earth. The which key is the same scripture that is preached, and the Pope hath no other power to bind and to loose, but by the key of the Scripture.
Item, that since the feast of Easter aforesaid, he had affirmed & beleued that euery man that would take vpō him to preach the Gospel of Christ clearly,1 had as much power as the Pope. To the which article he aunswered thus: He that preacheth the word of God, whatsoeuer he be, and liueth thereafter, he hath the key that bindeth and looseth both in heauen and earth. The which key is the same scripture that is preached, and the Pope hath no other power to binde and to loose, but by the key of the Scripture.
- 1True preachers have as much power of the keys as the Pope.True preachers haue as much power of the keyes as the Pope.