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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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A copy of the Bull of Pope Leo x. no less slanderous then barbarous, against Martin Luther and his doctrine. Leo Papa .x. Leo Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam: Exurge Domine & judica causam tuam.1 Memor esto impropriorum eorum quae ab insipientibus fiunt tota die. Inclina aurem tuam ad preces nostras, quoniam surrexerunt vulpes querentes demoliri veneam, cuius tu torcular solus calcasti, & ascensurus ad patrem, eius curam, regimē,2 & administrationem Petro tanquam capiti, & tuo vicario eiusque successoribus instar triumphantis Ecclesiae commisisti. &c. ¶The said slanderous and barbarous Bull of Pope Leo the x. against Luther, in English, with the answer of Luther joined to the same. Leo Bishop, servant of the servants of God, for a perpetual memory hereof. Rise up O Lord, & judge thy ⟨p. 1281⟩cause: Remember the rebukes wherewith we are scorned all the day long of foolish rebukers. Incline thy ear to our prayers:3 for Foxes are risen up, seeking to destroy thy vineyard, the vinepresse whereof thou only hast trodden, and ascending up to thy Father, hast committed the charge and regiment thereof unto Peter as chief head, and to thy Vicar and his successors. The wild Bore out of the wood seeketh to exterminate and root up thy Vineyard. Rise up Peter, and for this thy pastoral charge committed to thee from above intend to the cause of the holy Church of Rome the mother of all churches,4 and of our faith, which thou by the commandment of God didst consecrate with thine own blood: against which (as thou hast foretold us) false liars have risen up, bringing in sects of perdition, to their own speedy destruction. Whose tongue is like fire, full of unquietness, and replenished with deadly poison: who having a wicked zeal, and nourishing contentions in their harts do brag and lye against the verity. Rise up Paul also, we pray thee, which hast illuminate the same Church with thy doctrine and like martyrdom. For now is sprung up a new Porphyry, who, as they said Porphyry then unjustly did slander the holy Apostles, so semblably doth this man now slander, revile, rebuke, byte, and bark against the holy Bishops our predecessors, not in beseeching them, but in rebuking them.