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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 third Article.
That the Pope is an open user of Simony, daily selling the gifts of the spiritualities, and that it is lawful for all bishops to be coupled and joined in matrimony.
That the Pope is an open vser of Simony, daily selling the gifts of the spiritualties, and that it is lawfull for all bishops to be coupled and ioyned in matrimony.
Borthwike.
This article hath his several parts, for those things which we have spoken or answered unto the article before written, doth sufficiently declare, that the Pope is not only a user of Simony, but also a notable deceiver, which selleth such kind of merchandise, as can in no place help or prevail. For so much as his pardons are nothing less then such as he feigneth them to be. Doth he not then show himself a manifest deceiver, when as he maketh fairs and markets of them, but to the intent I will not seem in this behalf vainly to labour or travail,1