A67926:3995
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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The like testimony may also be taken of Gracian himself, who speaking of confession used then in his time,1 leaveth the matter in doubtful suspense, neither pronouncing on the one side, nor on the other, but referreth the matter to the free judgement of the Readers, which the act of these six Articles here enjoineth as necessary, under pain of death.
The like testimony may also be taken of Gracian himselfe, who speaking of confession vsed then in hys tyme,1 leaueth the matter in doubtfull suspense, neither pronouncinge on the one side, nor on the other, but referreth ye matter to the free iudgement of the Readers, which the acte of these six Articles here enioyneth as necessary, vnder paine of death.
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Briefly, in few words to search out and notify the very certain time,1 when this Article of ear confession first crept into the Church, & what antiquity it hath in following the Judgement of Joannes Scotus, and of Antoninus, it may be well▪ supposed, that the institution thereof took his first origin by Pope Innocent the third, in his Council of Lateran, An. 1215. For so we read in Joannes Scotus Lib. 4. Sent. Dist. 17. Artic. 3. Praecipua autem specificatio huius praecepti inuenitur in illo cap. Extra. de poenit. & remiss.2 Omnis utriusque sexus. &c. And after in the same Article it followeth: Nam ex prima institutione Ecclesiae non videntur fuisse Distincti proprij sacerdotes. Quando enim Apostoli hinc & inde ibant praedicando verbum Dei. &c. By the which words it appeareth that there was no institution of any such confession specified before the constitution of Innocentius the third.