A67926:3765
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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Si quis autem turpem videri see existimat super virginem suam, quod sit superadulta, & ita oportet fieri: quod vult, faciat: non peccat si nubat. Et iterum: utrunque bonum esse▪ unum tamen melius esse concludendo confirmat: 1Igitur qui matrimonio coniungit virginem suam, benè facit, & qui non jungit melius facit. Quod concordatur superiori sententiae utrique sexui datae, in qua ait: Si acceperis uxorem non peccasti, & si nupserit virgo non peccavit. Si ergo virum accipere uxorem, & virginem nubere, juxta Apostolum peccatum non est, & beatitudinem non aufert, sed affert: & quia uterque bene facit, ideo ambo beati: nos qui uxores propter infirmitatem habemus, quid habendo peccamus? Aut si Apostolus unicuique propter fornicationem uxorem suam habere indulget & permittit, cur nos qui ex eadem massa sumus, & carnem peccati ex carne Adae peccatricem traximus, & continere non possumus, propter eandem causam & secundum eandem indulgentiam uxores habere non permittimut, & habitas dimittere angariamur? Aut itaque uxores nobis habere imitantes Apostolum permittite, aut nos ex eadem massa non esse docete, aut nobis eandem indulgentiam, & permissionem non esse concessam ab Apostolo, demonstrate. Quod opinor dicturi estis, quia haec indulgentia non fuit data ab Apostolo clericis aut alicui nostri ordinis, sed solis laicis. Quod ex verbis Apostoli vel ex circumstantia epistolae non potest defendi, cûm nulla ibi certa distinctio vel denominatio habeatur personarum vel graduum sive professionum, nec ipse discernit seu nominibus seu officijs vel qui sibi scripserunt, vel de quibus, vel quibus ipse rescribebat, nisi tantū generaliter omni Ecelesiae Corinthiorum, sicut ipse in principio huius epistolae his verbis demonstrat: 2Paulus vocatus Apostolus Christi Jesu per voluntatē Dei, & Sostenes frater, Ecclesiae Dei quae est Corinthi, sanctificatis in Christo Jesu, vocatis sanctis, cū omnibus qui inuocant nomē Domini. [Et post nonnulla alia, quae compendij causa hic rescidimus, haud ita multum ad rem attinentia, ⟨p. 1158⟩subinfert mox ad hunc modum:] Infirmitatem nostrā vos considerate, ac miserari rogamus, & ne ei violentiā inferatis suppliciter imploramus. Nam sicut jam satis superius inculcavimus vobis, nullus ad continentiā inuitus debet comply.