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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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Although notwithstanding the greatest part of Ecclesiastical Ministers seeing this strange doctrine and proceedings (which Saint Paul expressly calleth the doctrine of Devils) did what they could to withstand the same.1 2Of whom Lambertus Scafnaburgensis thus writeth: Aduersus hoc Decretum protinus vehementer infremuit tota factio Clericorum, hominem planè haereticum, & vesani dogmatis esse clamitans, qui oblitus sermonis Domini, quo ait: Non omnes capiunt hoc Verbum: Qui potest capere, capiat, &c. Et Apostoli: Qui se non continet nubat: Melius est nubere, quàm uri, Violenta exactione homines vivere cogeret ritu Angelorum. Quod si pergeret, mall see sacerdotium, quàm coniugium deserere, &c. In English thus: Against this Decree, the whole number of the Clergy did vehemently storm and grudge, crying out upon him, as a pernicious heretic, & one that maintained fantastical doctrine: who forgetting what the Lord saith: 3All men can not take this word: He that can take it, let him take it. And also what the Apostle sayeth: Who so can not otherwise contain let him marry, better it is to marry then to burn, &c. Yet notwithstanding would bind men to live like Angels. Who if he continued as he began, they would (they said) sooner forsake the order of Priesthood, then their order of Matrimony, &c.
Although notwithstanding the greatest parte of Ecclesiasticall Ministers seeing this straunge doctrine and proceedinges (whiche Saint Paule expressely calleth the doctrine of Deuilles) did what they coulde to withstande the same.1 2Of whom Lambertus Scafnaburgensis thus writeth: Aduersus hoc Decretum protinus vehementer infremuit tota factio Clericorum, hominem planè haereticum, & vesani dogmatis esse clamitans, qui oblitus sermonis Domini, quo ait: Non omnes capiunt hoc Verbum: Qui potest capere, capiat, &c. Et Apostoli: Qui se non continet nubat: Melius est nubere, quàm vri, Violenta exactione homines viuere cogeret ritu Angelorum. Quod si pergeret, malle se sacerdotium, quàm coniugium deserere, &c. In English thus: Agaynste this Decree, the whole number of the Cleargie did vehemently storme and grudge, crying out vppon him, as a pernicious heretique, & one that maynteyned phantasticall doctrine: who forgetting what the Lorde sayth: