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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 kings answer to the rebels.Book 8 › The kings answere to the rebels.
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Fourthly, that the said D. Boner was not only favoured of the Lord Cromwell, but also by him was advanced §4first to the office of Legation,1 then to the Bishopric of Hereford, and lastly to the Bishopric of London, whom the said D. Boner in his letters agniseth and confesseth to be his only Patron, and singular Maecenas.
Fourthly, that the said D. Boner was not onely fauoured of the Lord Cromwell, but also by him was aduaunced §4first to the office of Legation,1 then to the Bishoprike of Hereford, and lastly to the Bishoprike of London, whome the said D. Boner in his letters agniseth and confesseth to be his only Patron, and singular Mecaenas.
- 1D. Boners coming up only by the Gospel.D. Boners comming vp onely by the Gospell.
Which being so, we have in this said D. Boner, greatly to marvel, what should be the cause, that he, seeing all his §5setting up, making, and preferring, came only by the Gospel and by them of the Gospels side, he being then so hated of Steven Gardiner and such as he was, being also at that time such a furtherer and defender of the Gospel (as appeared both by his Preface before Gardinars book De obedientia, and by his writings to the Lord Cromwell, also by helping forward the printed Bibles at Paris) could ever be a man so ungrateful & unkind, afterward to join part with the said Steven Gardiner against the Gospel (without that which Gospel, he had never come to be bishop, neither of Hereford nor yet of London) and now to abuse the same bishopric of London to persecute it so vehemently, which before so openly he defended. Wherein the same may well be said to him in this case, that he himself was reported once to say to the french King in the cause of Grancetor: to wit, that he had done therein against his honour, against justice, against reason, against honesty,