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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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Again,1 after Victor came Pope Nicholas 2. who congregating an other Council at Rome, An. 1058. sent for Berengarius there to appear, who being present, argued what he could, for the justness of his cause, but all would not serve: In the Popes general Councils, such a stroke and mastership beareth authority above verity. Berengarius being thus borne down on every side by might & superiority, when no remedy would serve,2 but he must needs recant again (for the law of relapse was not yet in season) he desired to know what other confession of the sacrament the Pope would require of him,3 besides that which he had there confessed. Then Pope Nicolas committed that charge to Humbart a Monk of Lotharinge, and after a Cardinal, that he should draw out in formable words, the order of his recantation, after the prescription of Rome, which he should read and publicly profess before the people. The form of which words is registered in the Decrees, De consecrat. dist 2. Ego Berengarius. &c. The effect whereof is this: That he pretendeth with heart and mouth, to profess, that he acknowledging the true, catholic, 4and Apostolical faith, doth execrate all heresy, namely, that, wherewith he hath lately been infamed, as holding that the bread and wine upon the Altar, after the consecration of the Priest, remain only a Sacrament, and are not the very self body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, neither can be handled or broken with the priests hands, or chewed with the teethe of the faithful, otherwise then only by manner of a Sacrament Consenting now to the holy and Apostolical Church of Rome, 5he professed with mouth and heart, to hold the same faith touching the Sacraments of the Lords mass, which the Lord Pope Nicholas, with his Synod here present doth hold, and commandeth to be holden by his Evangelical and Aposticall authority, that is, that the bread and wine upon the Altar, after consecration are not only a Sacrament, but also are the very true and self body, and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and are sensibly felt and broken with hands, and chewed with teethe: