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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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If men will not be willingly blind, they shall easily see even by a due and evident proof in reason, though grace doth not yet by the word of Christ enter into them, how small the authority of the Bishop of Rome is, by the lawful denial of the Duke of Mantua for the place. For if the Bishop of Rome did earnestly intend to keep a Coū cell at Mantua, and hath power by the law of God, to call Princes to what place him liketh: why hath he not also authority to choose what him listeth: The Bishop chose Mantua: the Duke kept him out of it. If Paul the Bishop of Romes authority be so great as he pretendeth,1 why could he not compel Fridericus the Duke of Mantua, that the Council might be kept there? The Duke would not suffer it. No, he forbade him his town.
If mē will not be willingly blind, they shall easily see euen by a due and euident proofe in reason, though grace doth not yet by the word of Christ enter into them, how small the authority of the Bishop of Rome is, by the lawfull deniall of the Duke of Mantua for the place. For if the Bishop of Rome did earnestly intend to keepe a Coū cell at Mantua, and hath power by the law of God, to call Princes to what place him liketh: why hath he not also authority to chuse what him listeth: The Bishop chose Mantua: the Duke kept him out of it. If Paule the Bishop of Romes authority be so great as he pretendeth,1 why could he not compell Fridericus the Duke of Mantua, that the Councell might be kept there? The Duke would not suffer it. No, he forbad him his towne.
- 1The Duke of Mantua denieth the Pope his City f•r his Councell.The Duke of Mantua deniethe the Pope his Citie f•r his Councell.
How chanceth it, that here excommunications flee not abroad? Why doth he not punish this Duke? Why is his power, that was wont to be more then full, here empty? wont to be more then all, here nothing? Doth he not call men in vain to a Council, if they that come at his calling be excluded the place, to the which he calleth them? May not kings justly refuse to come at his call, when the Duke of Mantua may deny him the place that he chooseth? If other Princes order him as the Duke of Mantua hath done,