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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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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,1 what place shall be left him, where he may keep his general Council?
How chaunceth it, that here excommunications flee not abroade? Why doth he not punish this Duke? Why is his power, that was woont to be more then full, here empty? wont to be more then all, here nothing? Doth he not call men in vayn to a Councell, if they that come at his calling be excluded the place, to the which he calleth them? May not kinges iustly 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,1 what place shalbe left him, where he may keepe hys generall Councell?
- 1If the Popes authority may be stopped by a Duke, what authority then hath he over kings and Emperors.If the Popes authority may be stopped by a Duke, what authority then hath he ouer kinges and Emperours.
Again, if Princes have given him this authority to call a council, is it not necessary, that they give him also all those things, without the which he can not exercise that his power? Shall he call men, and will ye let him to find no place to call them unto? Truly he is not wont to appoint one of his own cities, a place to keep the Council in. No, the good man is so faithful and friendly toward other, that seldom he desireth Princes to be his guests.