A67926:5465
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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Book 8 › *The tenor of the sentence.Book 8 › *The tenour of the sentence.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
*The tenor of the sentence.
*The tenour of the sentence.
IN nomine Dei. Amen. Nos Willielmus permission divina Cantuariensis Archiepis. totius Angliae primas & Apostolicae sedis Legatus,1 in quodam negotio hereticae pravitatis contra te Willielmum Carder de Tenterden nostrae Cant. Dioceseos laicum ac nostro imperio notoriè subditum & subiectum coram nobis in judicio personaliter comparentem nobis super heretica pravitate huiusmodi detectum & delatum, ac per nostram Diocesim Cantuariae antedictae notoriè & publicè in ea parte apud bonos & graves diffamatum, ex officio mero ritè & canonicè precedents, auditis & intellectis, visis & cognitis, rimatisque ac matura deliberation discussis & ponderatis dicti negotij meritis, seruatisque in omnibus & per omnia in eodem negotio de jure seruandis, ac quomodo libet requisitis pro tribunali sedentes, Christi nomine inuocato & solum Deum prae oculis habentes: Quia per acta actitata, deducta, probata & exhibita coram nobis in eodem negocio inuenimus te per probations legitimas coram nobis in hac part judicialiter factas, nonnullos & varios errors, haereses, & damnatas opinions, jury divino & ecclesiastico obuiantes, contrarios, & repugnantes, contra fidem orthodoxam, determinatam & obseruatam, tenuisse, credidisse, affirmasse, predicasse, & dogmatizasse, & presertim contra Sacramenta altaris, seu eucharistiae, poenitentiae, ordinis, & alia Sacramenta, & sanctae matris Ecclesiae dogmata: Et quamuis nos Christi vestigijs inhaerendo, qui non vult mortem peccatoris, sed magis ut conuertatur & vivat, sepenumero conati fuimus te corrigere ac vijs & modis licitis, & canonicis quibus potuimus aut scivimus, ad fidem orthodoxam per universalem Catholicam & Apostolicam Ecclesiam, determinatam & obseruatam, ac ad unitatem eiusdem sanctae matris Ecclesiae reducere, tamen inuenimus te adeo durae ceruicis quòd tuos errors & haereses huiusmodi nolueris sponte & incontinenti confiteri, nec ad fidem Catholicam & unitatem sanctae matris Ecclesiae antedictas debitè reverti & redire, sed tanquam iniquitatis & tenebrarum filius in tantum indurasti cor tuum, ut non velis intelligere vocem tui pastoris tibi paterno compacientis affectu, nec velis pijs & paternis monitionibus allici, nec salubribus reduci blanditijs: