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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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Thus ye have heard what abominable wickedness ensued after that priests were debarred from marriage, and whatfore punishment was devised by this maidenly prelate, for extirping that sinful wickedness: in the abolishing whereof, more wisely he should have removed away the occasion whereof he was the author himself, then by penalty to suppress it, which he could never do.
Thus ye haue heard what abhominable wickednesse ensued after that priests were debarred from mariage, and whatfore punishment was deuised by this maidenly prelate, for extirping that sinful wickednes: in the abolishing whereof, more wiselie he should haue remooued away the occasion whereof he was the authour himselfe, then by penaltie to suppresse it, which he could neuer do.
Now let us hear further, what followed in that worthy Councell:1 Qui vero in hoc crimine publicatus fuerit, statutum est, siquidem fuerit persona religìosi ordinis, ut ad nullum amplius gradum promoveatur, & si quem habet, ab illo deponatur. Si autem laicus, ut in toto Regno Angliae legally sua condignitate privetur. Et ne huius criminis absolutionem, ijs qui se sub regula vivere voverunt, aliquis nisi Episcopus deinceps facere praesumat Statutum quoque est, ut per totam Angliam in omnibus Ecclesijs, & in omnibus diebus Dominicis, excommunicatio praefata publicetur ac renovetur, &c. Which is as much to say in English: It is enacted, that whosoever shall be publicly known to be guilty hereof, 2if he be a religious person, he shall from thence forth be promoted to no degree of honour, and that degree which he hath already, shall be taken from him. If he be a lay person, he shall be deprived of all his freedom within the whole realm of England. And that none under a bishop shall presume to assoil such as have been Monks professed, of that trespass. It is also enacted, that every sunday in the year, and in every parish church in England, this general curse aforesaid shall be published and renewed, &c. Ex Rog. Hoved. & Epist. Anselm. 278.