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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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Book 8 › ¶The sentence given against John Frith.Book 8 › ¶The sentence geuen against Iohn Frith.
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We therefore John the Bishop aforesaid, not willing that thou which art wicked, shouldest become more wicked, and infect the Lords flock with thy heresy, which we are greatly afraid of, do judge thee, and definitively condemn thee, the said John Frith, thy demerits and faults being aggravate through thy damnable obstinacy, as guilty of most detestable heresies, and as an obstinate unpenitent sinner, refusing penitently to return to the lap and unity of the holy mother Church, and that thou haste been, and art by Law excommunicate, and pronounce and declare thee to be an excommunicate person: also we pronounce and declare thee to be an heretic to be cast out from the Church, and left unto the judgement of the secular power, and now presently so do leave thee unto the secular power, and their judgement, most earnestly requiring them in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ, that this execution and punishment worthily to be done upon thee, may so be moderate, that the rigour thereof be not too extreme, nor yet the gentleness too much mitigated, but that it may be to the salvation of thy soul, to the extirpation, terror, and conversion of heretics, to the unity of the Catholic faith,1 by this our sentence definitive or final decree, which we here promulgate in this form aforesaid.
We therefore Iohn the Bishop aforesaid, not willyng that thou whiche arte wicked, shouldest become more wicked, and infecte the Lordes flocke wyth thy heresye, which we are greatly afrayde of, do iudge thee, and definitiuely condemne thee, the sayde Iohn Frith, thy demerites and faultes beyng aggrauate through thy damnable obstinacie, as gyltie of most detestable heresies, and as an obstinate vnpenitent sinner, refusing penitently to returne to ye lappe and vnitie of the holy mother Church, and that thou haste bene, and arte by Lawe excommunicate, and pronounce and declare thee to be an excōmunicate person: also wee pronounce and declare thee to bee an heretique to be cast out from the Church, and left vnto the iudgement of the secular power, and nowe presentlye so do leaue thee vnto the secular power, and their iudgement, moste earnestly requiring them in the bowels of our Lorde Iesus Chryst, that this execution and punishment worthily to be done vppon thee, maye so bee moderate, that the rigour thereof be not too extreme, nor yet the gentlenesse too muche mitigated, but that it may bee to the saluation of thy soule, to the extirpation, terrour, and conuersion of heretiques, to the vnitie of the Catholique fayth,