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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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But more plainly the same may appear by the words of Antoninus in 3. part Histor. 1Which be these Innocentius tertius in Concilio generally praedicto, circa Sacramenta confessionis & communionis sic statuit: Omnis utriusque sexus fidelis, postquam ad annum discretionis peruenerit, omnia peccata sua solus saltem semel in anno confiteatur proprio sacerdoti, & iniunctam sibi poenitentiam proprijs viribus studeat adimplere, alioqu• & vivens ab ingressu Ecclesiae arceatur, & moriens Christiana careat sepultura. Unde hoc salutare statutum frequenter in Ecclesijs publicetur: ne quisquam ignorantiae coecitate velamen excusationis assumat. &c. That is to say. Pope Innocent the 3. in his general Council aforesaid, touching the Sacraments of confession and the communion, made this constitution as followeth. 2That every faithful person, both man & woman, after they come to the years of discretion, shall confess all their sins by themselves alone, at least once a year, to their own ordinary priest, and shall endeavour to fulfil by their own strength, their penance to them enjoined. Or else who so doth not, shall neither have entrance into the Church being alive, nor being dead shall enjoy Christian burial. Wherefore rhis wholesome constitution we will to be published often in the Churches, least any man through the blindness of ignorance may make to them selves a cloak of excuse. &c. And thus much hitherto we have alleged by occasion incident of these six Articles for some part of confutation of the same, referring the reader for the rest, to the more exquisite tractation of Divines, which professedly write upon those matters.
But more plainly the same may appeare by the wordes of Antoninus in 3. parte Histor. 1Whyche be these Innocentius tertius in Concilio generali praedicto, circa Sacramenta confessionis & communionis sic statuit: Omnis vtriusque sexus fidelis, postquam ad annum discretionis peruenerit, omnia peccata sua solus saltem semel in anno confiteatur proprio sacerdoti, & iniunctam sibi poenitentiam proprijs viribus studeat adimplere, alioqu• & viuens ab ingressu Ecclesiae arceatur, & moriens Christiana careat sepultura. Vnde hoc salutare statutum frequenter in Ecclesijs publicetur: ne quisquam ignorantiae coecitate velamen excusationis assumat. &c. That is to say. Pope Innocent the 3. in hys generall Councell aforesayde, touching the Sacraments of confession and the communion, made this constitution as followeth.