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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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Furthermore, Paul in the second to the Colossians, denieth that he hath any dominion or rule over the faith of the Corinthians, albeit he was ordained by the Lord to be their Apostle. If you require and desire a further reason of the moderation of Saint Paul, read the tenth chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, where as he teacheth, That faith cometh by hearing, it cometh not by the dreams of the Bishop of Rome, or by any other Bishop, but only by the word of God, neither ought any man to think it strange, that neither Christ restrained his Apostles by the law, that they should not teach any thing but that which they had learned of the mouth of the Lord. He set the same law upon himself because it should not be lawful for any man to refuse it.
Furthermore, Paule in the second to the Collossians, denieth that he hath any dominion or rule ouer the fayth of the Corinthians, albeit he was ordayned by the Lorde to be their Apostle. If you require and desire a further reason of the moderation of Saint Paule, read the tenth chapter of his Epistle to the Romaines, where as he teacheth, That fayth commeth by hearyng, it commeth not by the dreames of the Bishop of Rome, or by any other Bishop, but onely by the worde of God, neyther ought any man to thinke it straunge, that neyther Christ restrayned hys Apostles by the lawe, that they should not teache any thyng but that which they had learned of the mouthe of the Lord. He set the same law vppon himselfe because it should not be lawfull for any man to refuse it.
My doctrine saith Christ is not mine, but his which sent me, my fathers: he which hath been the only and eternal counsellor of the father, which also is ordained by the Father, the Lord and Master over all, for so much yet as he doth the office and part of a Minister, he doth by his example prescribe unto all Ministers, what rule and order they ought to follow in teaching, wherefore the power of the Church is not such, that it may at his own will and discretion, teach new doctrines, either as they term it, frame new Articles of faith, either establish new laws: but is subject unto the word of the Lord, and as it were included in the same. But now let us behold what defence they do bring for their constitutions. The Apostles say they, and the Elders of the Primitive Church established a decree, besides the commandment of Christ, whereby they did command all people to abstain from all things offered unto Idols, suffocation, and blood.