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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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6 If the Pope would make all the observations of the ceremonies, as Lent, fasting, holidays, confession, matrimony, mass, 1matins, and relics, &c. free and indifferent, he should not be Antichrist: but now, because he commendeth them in the name of Christ, he utterly corrupteth the Church, suppresseth the faith, and advanceth sin, fol. 67.
6 If the Pope woulde make all the obseruations of the ceremonies, as Lent, fasting, holydayes, confession, matrimonie, masse, 1mattins, and reliques, &c. free and indifferent, he should not bee Antichrist: but now, because he commendeth them in the name of Christ, he vtterly corrupteth the Church, suppresseth the faith, and aduanceth sinne, fol. 67.
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If the Pope will infer a necessity of those things, which Christ leaveth free and indifferent, then what doth he make himself but Antichrist? The Article is plain, and is founded upon the doctrine of Christ, and S. Paul.
If the Pope will infer a necessitie of those things, which Christ leaueth free and indifferēt, then what doth he make himselfe but Antichrist? The Article is plaine, and is founded vpon the doctrine of Christ, and S. Paule.
7 To believe in Christ maketh sure inheritors with Christ, fol. 1.