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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.
Quia sunt quidā Prelati, qui dum sacerdotalem ordinem▪ ipsam legem divinā maligno excessu vel leviter à sitae rectitudinis uta quasi inclinare & in aliam partem flectere vident, eam inclinationem castigere ⟨p. 1157⟩& corrigere magis virtutis suae ostentation quàm divina emulatione praesumunt, & quia hoc inconsultè agunt dum adiutores Dei videri appetunt, plerumque mortaliter in deterius cadunt. Sunt & alij qui nullam infirmitatis humanae considerationem, 1nec ullum misericordiae respectum & compassionis affectū habent, & cum Apostolo dicere nescientes: Quis infirmatur & ego non infirmor? D•m se subditis non conditione qua pares, sed authoritate qua superiores sunt, conferunt, atque magistri videri, & plus prae esse quàm prodesse cupiunt, 2illorum infirmitatem vi dominationis premunt, & eos sibi obedire compellunt. Quod nimirum illo facto figuratur, quod de Simone Cyrenaeo in Evangelio legitur, quem angariaverunt persecutores Domini ut tolleret crucem eius. Cuius etiam nomen huic figurae conuenienter aptatur. Simon namque interpretatur obediens. Simon verô, id est obediens, crucem Domini portare angariatur cum subiecti quique à suis magistris vi dominationis vel authoritatis, •el anathematis pressi, & eis obedire compulsi, crucem continentiae patiuntur inuiti: ipsamque crucem quam portant, non amant, quia ipsam plus ad perniciem suam, quàm ad salutem portant, nec ipsa cruce peccato moriuntur, 3sed potius ipsi peccato vivificantur: Nam & alia peccata graviora exindè oriuntur. Inhibito enim naturali unius mulieris coniugio, surrepit non naturalis, sed contra naturam execrabilis Sodomitica fornicatio: surrepit illicita & damnabilis, non legitima sed contra legem alienae uxoris contaminatio, nec non etiam & meretricabilis nefanda pollutio: quin etiam abominabilis omnibus parentalis incestatio, vel aliarum multarum immundiciarum vel libidinum à diabolo inuentarum id genus, in quibus humana infirmitas periclitatur. Unde Loth de Sodomitico incendio Angelo domini educente ereptus, & uxoris consortio viduatus, dumb sua infirmittais conscius ad montana non ausus est Angelo monente ascendere, ipse in Segor prua civitate quae juxta erat, elegit habitare, ipso Angelo praecipiente & sic ad eum loquente: