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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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requiring moreover, that he would forbear no longer the filthy and infamous life of priests, but that he would permit them to have their lawful wives, &c. This was in the year of our Lord 1522.
requiring moreouer, that he would forbeare no longer the filthie and infamous life of priests, but that he woulde permit them to haue theyr lawfull wiues, &c. This was in the yeare of our Lord 1522.
Besides this,1 Zuinglius wrote also another letter to the whose nation of the Helvetians, monishing them, in no case to hinder the passage of sincere doctrine, nor to infer any molestation to Priests that were married. For as for the vow and coaction of their single life, it came (said he) of the devil, and a devilish thing it is. And therefore,2 whereas the said Helvetians had such a rite and custom in their towns and pages, that when they received any new Priest into their Churches,3 they used to premonish him before to take his concubine, least he should attempt any misuse with their wives and daughters: he exhorted them that they would no less grant unto them to take their wives in honest matrimony, then to take concubines and harlots, against the precept of God.
Besides this,1 Zuinglius wrote also another letter to the whose nation of the Heluetians, monishing them, in no case to hinder the passage of sincere doctrine, nor to inferre any molestation to Priests that were maried. For as for the vowe and coaction of their single life, it came (sayd he) of the diuell, and a diuelish thing it is. And therefore,2 whereas the said Heluetians had such a rite and custome in their townes and pages, that when they receiued anie new Priest into their Churches,