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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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The like matter also appeareth in the fourth Canon of the Council of Chalcedon,1 where it is provided Ne Monachi see Ecclesiasticis negotijs immisceant, &c. Et Leo Epist. 62. Vetat Monachos & laicos etsi scientiae nomine glorientur, admitti ad officium docendi & concionandi. Whereof read more page. 154.
The like matter also appeareth in the fourth Canon of the Councell of Chalcedon,1 where it is prouided Ne Monachi se Ecclesiasticis negotijs immisceant, &c. Et Leo Epist. 62. Vetat Monachos & laicos etsi scientiae nomine glorientur, admitti ad officium docendi & concionandi. Whereof reade more page. 154.
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Thus it appeareth about or before the time of Hierome, that Monks in the first persecutions of the Primitive Church were lay men, and companies of Christians associating themselves together,1 either for fear of persecution, or for eschewing the company of heathen Gentiles. Afterward in continuance of time, when the Gentiles began to be called to Christianity, the monks yet keeping their name, & growing in superstition, would not join with other Christians, but keep still their brotherhoods, dividing themselves from other Christians, and professing a kind of life strange and divers from the common trade. Upon this diversity of life and profession, followed also like diversity of garments and attire differing from their other brethren. After this moreover came in the rule of S. ⟨p. 1181⟩Benedict, enjoining to them a prescribed form of going, of wearing, of watching, sleeping, rising, praying, of silence, sole life and diet, and all things almost differing from the vulgar sort of common Christians.