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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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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 I will pass unto the second part, where as I do say, that it is not only done against the word of God, but also against equity and justice to forbid priests to marry, for so much as it is not lawful for any man by any means to forbid that thing, which the Lord hath left at liberty. For S. Paul in the xiij. chapter unto the Hebrews, declareth, that matrimony is lawful for all men, saying that marriage and the undefiled bed or chamber is honourable amongest all men: and in the first to the Corinthians and vij. chapter. He saith, for avoiding of whoredom, Let every man have a wife of his own: but I know what these obstinate and stiff necked will answer unto me, that the same is spoken and meant of others, and not of priests. But what will they answer unto me as touching that which is written in the first to Timothy, and iij. chapter. A Bishop ought to be without rebuke, the husband of one wife, and by and by after he sayeth, Deacons ought to be the husbands of one wife, the which should rule and govern their children and family uprightly. Unto these Paul affirmeth matrimony to be meet and necessary, let them say what they can unto the contrary. What could be more vehemently spoken against their wicked tyranny, then that which by the holy Ghost he declareth in the iiij. chapter of the same Epistle, that in the latter days there should come wicked men which should forbid matrimony, and calleth them not only deceivers, but also wicked spirits attending unto the doctrine of wicked spirits: but these men think that they have very well escaped, when as they wrest this sentence to those old ancient heretics the Tatianes, they say (these men) did only condemn matrimony, we do not condemn it, but only forbid Church men to marry. Unto whom we think matrimony is not convenient.