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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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Thus have you herein my mind, which if it be not firm and substantial, I will yet reform it when any better is showed, as I will also do in all other things: for I am not in this yet fully certified. Albeit me think the decrees do pass evidently with me.
Thus haue you herein my minde, which if it be not firme and substantiall, I will yet reforme it when any better is shewed, as I will also do in all other thinges: for I am not in this yet fully certified. Albeit me thinke the decrees do passe euidently with me.
In the xxiiij. where you do ask, whether excommunication denounced by the Pope against all heretics, do oblige and bind them before God? I say,1 that it bindeth them afore God, if it be lawfully denounced, that is, if they be in very deed, as they be named, & if he denounceth them so to be, not of his own proper head or affection only:2 but with the consent of other gathered with him in Christs name, for the behoof of Christs Church: For so used S. Paul, when he did excommunicate the man of Corinth,3 which had full horribly defiled his mother in law, as appeareth. 1. Cor. 5.
In the xxiiij. where you doe aske, whether excommunication denounced by the Pope agaynst all heretickes, do oblige and binde them before God? I say,1 that it byndeth them afore God, if it be lawfully denounced, that is, if they be in very deed, as they be named, & if he denounceth them so to be, not of his owne proper head or affection onely:2