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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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Fourthly, for as much then as it is undoubted that Nicolas 2. and Alexander 2. through the intrigation of wicked Hildebrand, were the authors of that constitution, whereof Gracian speaketh, it remaineth plain by the words of Uolusianus, in the latter end of his Letter, ⟨p. 1063⟩(wherein he maketh mention both of discharging the priest from singing Mass, & the people from hearing) that the said Epistle was written, not to Pope Nicolas the first but to the second, for because both these were decreed against married priests under Nicolas. 2. and Alexander. 2. as is afore declared.
Fourthly, for as muche then as it is vndoubted that Nicolas 2. and Alexander 2. through the intrigation of wicked Hildebrand, were the authors of that constitution, whereof Gracian speaketh, it remaineth playne by the wordes of Uolusianus, in the latter end of his Letter, ⟨p. 1063⟩(wherin he maketh mention both of discharging the priest from singyng Masse, & the people from hearing) that the saide Epistle was written, not to Pope Nicolas the first but to the secōd, for because both these were decreed against maried priestes vnder Nicolas. 2. and Alexander. 2. as is afore declared.
And further, least my judgement herein should seem to stand alone and singular, without some to take my part, I will here produce for me a Parisian Doctor,1 and a famous Lawyer, Joannes Quintius above mentioned, who in his book De Clericorum moribus, plainly accordeth w•th mine opinion, touching this Nicolas author of the Decree aforesaid, where he writeth in these words: Nicolaus Papa Othoni Coloniensi Archiepisc. &c. Quinque fuerunt hoc nomine pontifices Primum, secundumúe oportuit esse, qui haec rescripserit, ille Romanus, anno. 860. hic Burgundus, an. 1059. Reliquos Ninolaos antecessit Gratianus, qui scripsit haec, anno. 1150 Posteriorem fuisse credo, qui in Panomiae lib. 3. Tit. de lapsis, nominatur Nicholaus junior, cuius est & aliud Decretum sequens.