A67926:3768
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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Quod vos non rectè, si dici liceat (ne molestè accipiatis) videtur nobis, facere, & contra divinā authoritatē & Canonicam regulā hoc ꝙ facitis, esse: cùm Dominus per legislatorem dicat: 1Turpitudinē matris tuae non reveles, & ignominia eius ne discooperias: Matter nostra Ecclesia est: Filij huius matris, quiquè fideliū sunt. Cuius tamē materna appellatio, 2maximà in Sacerdotibus est. Nam ipsi, generant fideles, & verbo praedicationis, & sacramento Baptismatis. An non mater erat quae dicebat: Filioli mei quos interum parturio? Turpitudo ergo & ignominia matris nostrae reprehensibilis est actio Sacerdotalis vitae. Quae turpido tunc revelatur, & ignominia discooperitur, con sacerdotalis vita publicè infamatur. Quod vos nimirū facitis, qui fragilitatē nostrā quasi hactenus latentē & coopertam (quia eā nullus ita cognoverat) hominibus diffamatis, & propter eā divina mysteria vel ministeria aspernanda sancitis. Quasi ad ea pertineat pollutio aliena, 3& ea polluat & commaculet immundicia nostra con Psalmographus dicat: Lex domini immaculata. Aut qua si illi nostro contagio contaminentur, quia ea ex nostro ore & ex nostro officio adipiscuntur. 4Quod si ita dicitis esse, nequaquā discipulis & turbis de Pharisaeis Dominus praeciperaet: Omnia quaecū que dixerint vobis, seruate & facite Et rursus, si ita esset nequaquā Dominus Judam quē •urē esse scieba• & proditorē suū futu•ū, cum discipulis alijs ad praedicandū mitteret, neque pot•statē signa ••c• endi & sanitates donandi, n• que ad communionem sac•o•anctae caenae eū admittéret. Et si immundicia nostra divina mysteria vel ministeria & eorū capaces & auditors insiceret & deteriora•et, nequaquā Dominus Leproū quē mundaverat, angeret, neque ei oulū daret, & nequaquā con Simone alio Leproso manducaret, & nequaquā à Maria peccatrice pedes suos osculari, & lachy laari, & capillis tergi & caput suum ungi permitteret. Hinc sacrorum Canonū veneranda authoritas sanxit, nullū qui etiam ab haeretico sacramenta dominica rectè perceperit, ulltenus ipsa haeretica pravitate corrumpi, nec ulla sacramenta illius contagion comaculari.