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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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4. To be short, the further we go & nearer to the ancient time of the church, the less ancient we shall find the deprivation of lawful matrimony amongst christian ministers, beginning if we will, with the Apostles, their examples and Canons, who although were not all married, yet divers of them were, and the rest had power and liberty to have and keep their wives, witnessing S. Paul, where he writeth of himselfe:1 Non habemus potestatem sororem mulierem circumducendi sicut & reliqui Apostoli? That is to say: have not we power to lead about a sister to wife, as also the other Apostles have? Whereby is to be seen, both what he might do, and what the other Apostles did. Also Clemens Alexandrinus, which was CC. years after Christ, Lib. Strom 7. denieth not but that Paul was married being an Apostle, as well as Peter and Philp.2 And as the said Apostles in their doctrine admonish all men to marry that can not otherwise do, saying to every one being in danger of temptation: Unusquisque suam uxorem habeat ne tentet vos Satanas, &c. That is, Let every man have his own wife, least Satan tempt you, &c. So likewise the same Apostles in their Canons (as in the Popes Decrees cited) do precisely charge, that no Bishop nor priest,3 should sequester from him his wife for any matter or pretence of religion, saying: If any shall teach that a priest for religion sake, 4ought to contemn his own wife, let him be accursed, &c.
4. To be short, the further we go & nearer to the auncient time of the church, the lesse auncient we shall finde the depriuation of lawfull matrimony amongst christian ministers, beginning if we will, with the Apostles, their examples and Canons, who although were not all maried, yet diuers of them were, and the rest had power and libertie to haue and keepe their wiues, witnessing S. Paule, where he writeth of himselfe:1 Non habemus potestatem sororem mulierem circumducendi sicut & reliqui Apostoli? That is to say: haue not we power to leade about a sister to wife, as also the other Apostles haue? Whereby is to be seene, both what he might do, and what the other Apostles did. Also Clemens Alexandrinus, whiche was CC. yeares after Christe, Lib. Strom 7. denieth not but that Paul was maried beyng an Apostle, as well as Peter and Philp.