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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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Ait enim quidam, non debuit Episcopus pro consulari judicio purgari &c. One there is which •aith, that a Bishop ought not to have ben put to his purgation before the judgement seat of the Deputy, as though he him self procured it, and not rather the Emperor himself caused this inquiry to be made, to whose jurisdiction (for the which he must answer to God) that cause did especially pertain. Chrysostom writeth of that Imperial authority thus: Laesus est qui non habet parem ullum super terram: summitas & caput est omnium hominum super terram:1 He is offended that hath no peer at all upon the earth, for he is the highest potentate, and the head of all men upon earth. And Tertullian ad Scapalum saith: Colimus ergo & Imperatorem sic, quomodo & nobis licet, & ipsi expedit, ut hominem à Deo secundum, &c. We honour & reverence the Emperor in such wise, as is lawful to us and expedient to him, that is to say, as a man next and the second to God, from whom he hath received all the power he hath: and also inferior to God alone, whose pleasure it is so to have it: For thus is he greater then all men, whiles he is inferior but to God alone. 2And the said Tertullian in his book apologetical speaking of Emperors, saith: Sciunt quis illis dederit imperium. &c. They know who hath given to them their government: they know that God is he alone, under whose only power they be, and take themselves as second to God, after whom they be chief before all other.3 Theophilacte also to the Rom. upon this place: Omnis anima potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit: Saith the Apostle there teacheth every man, Sive sacerdos ille sit sive Mona chus, sive Apostolus, ut see principibus subdat: that whether he be a priest or a monk, or an apostle, he should subject him self to princes. That is, although thou be an Apostle, an Evangelist, a Prophet, or whatsoever thou art, be subiect. Non enim (saith he) subuertit pietatem haec subiectio: For this subjection overthroweth no godliness. And the Apostle saith not only. Let him obey: but let him be subject. 4And if the Apostles be subject to princes, much more all Bishops and Patriarchs, yea the Bishops of Rome and all other.