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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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Moreover, in historia tripartita, it is written, that a noble Martyr of Christ called Paphnutius, 1in Nicene Council, when all other bishops were purposed to have enacted there that priests should live unmarried,2 this holy man resisted them so mightily both with reasons, and also with authority of scripture, that then their purpose altered, & their first devise could not pass. And one authority I remember was this, which he borrowed of Paul in the second Epistle to Timoth. Your devise (quod he) may have a semblance of holiness: but in deed it shall be the destruction and undoing of the same.
Moreouer, in historia tripartita, it is written, that a noble Martyr of Christ called Paphnutius, 1in Nicene Councell, when all other bishops were purposed to haue enacted there that priestes should liue vnmaried,2 this holy man resisted thē so mightily both with reasons, and also with authority of scripture, that then their purpose altered, & their first deuise could not passe. And one authoritie I remēber was this, which he borowed of Paul in the second Epistle to Timoth. Your deuise (quod he) may haue a semblāce of holines: but in deed it shall be the destruction and vndoing of the same.
- 1Paphnutius.
- 2Marriage permitted free by the Councell of Nice.Maryage permitted free by the Councell of Nice.
Moreover, in one of the principal histories of France called,1