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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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4 Fourthly, for so much as in these principally above all other, pureness and sanctification of life is required, as much and more too, then was in the Priests of the old Law, from whom all fornication, adultery, incest,1 and uncleanness of life ought most to be banished: therefore in these especially above the Priests of the old Law, matrimony and spousage is most requisite and convenient, who so ever he be, which otherwise can not contain, according to the Apostle, saying: Unusquisque uxorem suā habeat propter fornicationem.
4 Fourthly, for so much as in these principally aboue all other, purenesse and sanctification of lyfe is required, as much and more too, then was in the Priestes of the olde Law, from whom all fornication, adulterie, incest,1 and vncleannesse of lyfe ought most to be banished: therefore in these especially aboue the Priestes of the olde Law, matrimonie and spousage is most requisite and conueniēt, who so euer he be, which otherwise can not conteine, accordyng to the Apostle, saying: Vnusquisque vxorem suā habeat propter fornicationem.
5 Fifthly, neither is this matrimony in these, any hinderance to their sanctification before God,1 but rather furthereth & helpeth their sanctification, forasmuch as where matrimony is not, there commonly reigneth adultery, fornication, and all kinds of filthiness according to the true saying of Bernard: Tolle de Ecclesia honorabile connubium & thorum immaculatum, nonne reples eam concubinarijs, incestuosis, seminifluis, mollibus, masculorum concubitoribus & omni denique genere immundorum? That is,