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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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For so the story recordeth, that when Anselm had established his Synodal constitution,1 in separating priests from their wives (which was, anno. 1103.) not long after, rumours and complaints were brought to him, of the execrable vice of Sodomitrie, which then began specially to reign in the Clergy, after this inhibition of matrimony.
For so the storie recordeth, that when Anselme had established his Synodoll constitution,1 in seperating priests from their wyues (which was, anno. 1103.) not long after, rumours and complaints were brought to him, of the execrable vice of Sodomitrie, which then beganne speciallie to raigne in the Clergie, after this inhibition of matrimonie.
- 1[…] the •••ibition •atrimo•• ••llowed […] of •••omitry.〈…〉 the •••ibition •atrimo•• ••llowed 〈…〉 of •••omitry.
Whereupon Anselm was constrained to call an other Council at Pauls within London, to provide for this mischief. In which Council this Act was made: Sodomiticum flagitium facientes, & eos in hac voluntate ivvantes, gravi an athemate dannamus, donec poenitentia & confessione absolutionem mereantur, &c. All them that commit the ungracious sin of Sodomitrie,