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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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Also that the power whereby men are loosed from sin, is not the priests power you may know by the vulgar saying, which is right true: yea and with leisure,1 I doubt not but that I can show the same in the Decrees which is thus: Solus Deus remittit peccata. Only God forgiveth and pardoneth us of our sins: And this was preached at Pauls Cross the sunday next after the Epiphany last, the Bishop of London sitting by:2 the Preacher speaking after this form, treating of this text: Ecce agnus Dei qui tollit ⟨p. 1106⟩peccata mundi: Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. In that said the preacher, testimony is given of Christ to be a Lamb, it is showed that he was an innocent man. But in that it is said, that he taketh away the sin of the world, is showed that he was God, alleging there for the confirmation of this part of his purpose, the vulgar saying above said by me: Solus Deus remittit peccata. And the same proposition, or an other equal with the same, useth Chrysostom in an Homely that is made upon this text of Mathe.3 Vocabitur nomen eius Jesus. &c. His name shall be called Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. Also Saint Chrysostom in opere imperfecto, upon this texte, Vae vobis Scribae & Pharisaei, qui clauditis reg•um coelorum, 4&c. Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharisees, because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men, &c. As near as my remembrance doth serve me: or else in some other place, but in the same book (as I suppose) he affirmeth that the keys of heaven are the word & doctrine of God. This witnesseth moreover S. Gregory (I trow) in his book called Pastoralia, 5or else it is in an Epistle that he writeth, ad Episcopum Constantinopolitanum, in these words: Clavis appertionis est sermo correctoris, qui increpando, culpam detegit, quam saepe nescit qui perpetravit. The key of loosing is the word of the corrector who rebuking doth disclose the fault, which many times he knoweth not that committeth the same.