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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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The second reason, I take out of the next Chapter of Gracian going before,1 where he allegeth again the same Nicolas writing to Otho Archbishop. Which Otho was then in the time of this Nicolas the second Archbishop of Colen, and was afterward in the Council of Mantua, under Pope Alexander 2. teste Joan. Quintio, Jure consulto, 2Whereby it must needs be granted, that this was Nicolas the second, and not the first.
The second reason, I take out of the next Chapter of Gracian going before,1 where he allegeth agayne the same Nicolas writing to Otho Archbishop. Which Otho was then in the time of this Nicolas the second Archbishop of Colen, and was afterward in the Counsell of Mantua, vnder Pope Alexander 2. teste Ioan. Quintio, Iure consulto, 2Wherby it must needes be graunted, that this was Nicolas the second, and not the first.
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The third conjecture or reason is this, for that Pope Nicolas the first never made any such Act or Decree, the Priests that were entangled with a Concubine, should neither sing Mass, nor that any should resort to hear the Mass of such. &c. but rather the contrary.1 For so we read in the history of Antoninus, and in the Decrees 15. q. 8. Sciscitantibus. Sciscitantibus vobis si à sacerdote quifuerit comprehensus in adulterio, sive de hoc sola fama resperserit, debeatis Con munionem suscipere, nec ne, respondemus: