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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 place cited in the book of the Revelation of Antichrist,1 doth sufficiently open it self, speaking and meaning only of those Monkish vows, which by the canonical constitution of the Pope, are violently forced upon Priests and Monks, the coaction whereof S. Paul doth rightly call the doctrine of devils. And here note by the way another trick of a Popish caviller. For where the words of the book speak plainly of the chastity of the religious, fraudulently turning it to an universality sayeth, the chastity of Religion, whereby it might seem to the simple reader more odious & heretical. The words of the place be these.
The place cited in the booke of the Reuelation of Antichrist,1 doth sufficiently open it selfe, speaking and meaning onely of those Monkishe vowes, whiche by the canonicall constitution of the Pope, are violētly forced vpon Priests and Monkes, the coaction whereof S. Paule doth rightly call the doctrine of deuils. And here note by ye way another tricke of a Popishe cauiller. For where the wordes of the booke speake plainely of the chastitie of the religious, fraudulently turning it to an vniuersalitie sayeth, the chastitie of Religion, whereby it might seeme to the simple reader more odious & hereticall. The words of the place be these.
- 1A other place falsely depraved by the Papists.A other place falsly depraued by the Papistes.
Keeping of virginity & chastity of the religious, seemeth to be a godly and a heavenly thing: but it is a devilish thing. Of the which it is spoken in the fourth of the first epistle to Tim. Forbidding to marry, &c. where as again our most reverend father maketh that thing necessary,1 that Christ would have free, whereof Daniel in the 11. chapter speaketh: He shall not be desirous of women. Here Daniel meaneth that he shall refuse and abstain from marriage, for a cloak of godliness,