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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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Item, he chargeth all Archbishops, Bishops, Archdeacons, Deacons, Provosts, Parsons, Vicars, Curates, & other Ministers, and every of them in their own persons, within their cures diligently to preach, teach, open, and set forth to the people, the glory of God, & trueth of his word: and also considering the abuses & superstitions that have crept into the hearts and stomachs of many, by reason of their fond ceremonies, he chargeth them upon pain of imprisonment at his graces pleasure,1 not only to preach and teach the word of God accordingly, but also sincerely and purely, declaring the difference between things commaū dead by God, and the •ites and ceremonies in their church then used, least the people thereby might grow into further superstition.
Item, he chargeth all Archbishops, Bishops, Archdeacons, Deacons, Prouostes, Parsons, Uicars, Curates, & other Ministers, and euery of them in their own persons, within their cures diligently to preach, teach, open, and set forth to the people, the glory of God, & trueth of his word: and also considering the abuses & superstitions that haue crept into the hartes and stomackes of many, by reason of their fond ceremonies, he chargeth them vpon payn of imprisonment at his graces pleasure,1 not onely to preach and teach the word of God accordingly, but also sincerely and purely, declaring the difference betwene things commaū ded by God, and the •ites and ceremonies in theyr church then vsed, least the people therby might grow into further superstition.
- 1Thomas Becket noted of stubbornness.Thomas Becket noted of stubbernesse.
Item, for as much as it appeareth now clearly, that Thomas Becket sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, stubbornly withstanding the wholesome laws established against the enormities of the Clergy, by the kings highness noble Progenitor King Henry the second, for the common wealth, rest, and tranquility of this Realm, of his froward mind fled the Realm into France, and to the Bishop of Rome, maintainer of those enormities, to procure the abrogation of the said Laws, (whereby arose much trouble in this said Realm) and that his death which they untruly called Martyrdom, happened upon a rescue by him made, and that (as it is written) he gave opprobrious words to the Gentlemen, which then counselled him to leave his stubbornness, and to avoid the commotion of the people risen up for that rescue, and he not only called the one of them bawd, but also took Tracie by the bosom, and violently shook him, and plucked him in such manner, that he had almost overthrown him to the pavement of the church, so that upon this fray, one of their company perceiving the same, strake him, and so in the throng Becket was slain: and further, that his canonization was made only by the Bishop of Rome, because he had been a champion to maintain his usurped authority, and a bearer of the iniquity of the Clergy.