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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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To this testimony of Aventinus above mentioned, we will also adjoin the record of Gebuilerus a writer of this our latter time, and one also of their own crew,1 who doth testify that in time of the Emperor Henricus the fourth,2 an. 1057. the number of 24. Bishops both in Germany, Spain, and in France, were married, with the ⟨p. 1154⟩Clergy also of their diocese.
To this testimony of Auentinus aboue mentioned, we will also adioyne the recorde of Gebuilerus a writer of this our latter tyme, and one also of their owne crewe,1 who doth testifie that in tyme of the Emperour Henricus the fourth,2 an. 1057. the number of 24. Byshops both in Germany, Spayne, and in Fraunce, were maryed, with the ⟨p. 1154⟩Cleargie also of their dioces.
- 1Gebuilerus.
- 2Isidorus de vita clericorum.
Of the which Spanish Bishops we read also in Isidorus, which wrote more then six hundred years after Christ (and the place also cited in the Popes Distinctions) in his book De clericorum vita, 1how they ought either to lead an honest chaste life, or else to keep themselves within the band of matrimony, &c. Whereby is declared the single life of Priests, either to be then voluntary, or else their marriage not to be restrained as yet, by any law.