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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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Whereby men seeing their austerity, began to have them in great admiration.1 And thus growing up in opinion of ho••nes, of lay men and labourers they came at length to be Clergy men, and greatest doers of all other in Christs religion: In so much that at last there was none reputed almost for a religious man or perfect christian unless he were a monk: neither almost was any advanced to any dignity of the Church, but either he was a monk, or afterward he put on a monks weed: According as in the stories of this Realm is to be seen, how in the time of Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury,2 of Ethelwold Bishop of Worcester, and of Oswald Bishop of Winchester, Pope John. 13. writing to king Edgar, willed him in his letters, to see in his Cathedral Churches none to be promoted to be Bishops, but such as were of the Monastical religion, and willed him moreover to exclude the secular prebendaries at Winchester, and to place in Monks, and that none of the secular Clerks there should be chosen bishop, but either taken out of the same Convent of that church, or of some other Abbey.
Whereby men seeing theyr austerity, beganne to haue them in great admiration.1 And thus growing vp in opinion of ho••nes, of lay men and laborers they came at length to be Clergy men, and greatest doers of all other in Christes religion: In so muche that at last there was none reputed almost for a religious man or perfect christian vnles he were a monk: neither almost was any aduaūced to any dignity of the Church, but either he was a monke, or afterward he put on a monkes weede: According as in the stories of this Realme is to be seene, howe in the tyme of Dunstane Archbishop of Canterbury,2 of Ethelwold Byshop of Worcester, and of Oswald Bishop of Winchester, Pope Iohn. 13. writing to king Edgar, willed him in hys letters, to see in his Cathedrall Churches none to be promoted to be Bishops, but such as were of the Monasticall religion, and willed him moreouer to exclude the secular prebendaries at Winchester, and to place in Monkes, and that none of the secular Clerkes there should be chosen bishop, but either taken out of the same Couent of that churche, or of some other Abbey.