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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, because of the vain contention that often fall among the people for going on Procession, it was ordained that thenceforth the Priests and Clerks should kneel in the midst of the Church, & there distinctly sing or read the Litany in English set forth by the authority of K. Henry the eight:1 and that no person should depart the church in the time of reading the Scripture or the Litany, or during the time of any Sermon, without just and urgent cause.
Furthermore, because of the vayne contention that often fall among the people for goyng on Procession, it was ordeined that thenceforth the Priests and Clerkes should kneele in the midst of the Church, & there distinctly sing or reade the Letany in English sette forth by the authority of K. Henry the eight:1 and that no person should depart the church in the time of reading the Scripture or the Letany, or during the time of any Sermon, without iust and vrgent cause.
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Likewise that the people should spend the holidays in hearing the word of God, in private and public prayers, in knowledging their offences unto God and amendment of the same,1 in reconciling themselves charitably to their neighbours where displeasure hath been, in often receiving the Communion of the body and blood of Christ, in visiting the poor & sick, & in all sober and godly conversation: and not in vanity, idleness, or drunkenness, neither yet in any bodily labour, otherwise then in the time of harvest, to save the fruits of the earth, if necessity so required: and that no curate should admit unto the receiving of the holy communion,