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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As for the Gloss there in the margin, which expoundeth this word contemning for exhibiting things necessary for her sustenance, all the world may see that to be a Gloss of mere Sophistry.1 And because I have here made mention of Clemens Alexandrinus, it shall not be to our purpose impertinent, to infer the words of this worthy writer, wherewith he doth defend Priests lawful matrimony, against certain vain boasters of virginity in his time. Dicunt gloriosi isti jactatores, see imitari dominum, 2qui neque uxorem duxit, neque in mundo aliquid possedit: se magis quam alios Evangelium intellexisse gloriantes. That is: These glorious braggers do vaunt themselves to be the followers of the Lord, who neither had wife, nor yet possessed any thing here in the world, &c. And it followeth: Eis autem dicit scriptura, deus superbus resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam. Deinde nesciunt causam cur dominus uxorem non duxerit primum quidem propriam sponsam habuit ecclesiam. Deinde vero nec homo erat communis, ut opus haberet etiam adiutore aliquo secundum carnem, &c. To these the Scripture maketh answer: God withstandeth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Again, they consider not the cause why the Lord took no wife.3 First he had his own peculiar spouse: which is the Church. Moreover, neither was he as a common man, that he should ⟨p. 1153⟩stand in such need of a helper after the flesh, &c. And in the same book a little after alleging against them that abhor matrimony,4 he inferreth the words of S. Paul: how that in the latter days some shall fall from the faith attending to spirits of error, and to doctrine of devils, forbidding to marry, and to abstain from meats, &c. Which place of Saint Paul, Clement here applieth not against the Novatians, and them that condemn matrimony in general in all men, as naught: but he applieth it only against such, as forbid marriage in part, and namely in Priests, &c.
As for the Glose there in the margent, whiche expoundeth this word contemning for exhibiting things necessarye for her sustenance, all the worlde may see that to bee a Glose of meere Sophistry.