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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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For these causes and others rising upon the said process, by the Apostolic authority, and also the authority of our said reverend Lord the Cardinal, which we do use in this our sentence definitive, which we sitting in our judgement seat, declare in these writings, having God only before our eyes, and surely considering, that what measure we do meat unto other, the same shall be measured to us again: 1we pronounce and declare sententially and definitively, thee John Castellane, being here present before us, and judge thee because of thy deserts, to be excommunicate with the most great excommunication, and therewithal to be culpable of treason against the divine majesty, and a mortal enemy of the Catholic faith, and verity of the Gospel: also to be a manifest heretic, & a follower & partaker of the execrable *cruelty of Martin Luther, a stirrer up of old heresies already condemned, and therefore, as thou oughtest to be deposed and deprived of all Priestly honour and dignity, of all thy orders, of thy shaving, & religious habit: also of thy Ecclesiastical benefices, if thou hast any, and from all privilege of the Clergy: so we here presently do depose, deprive, and separate thee as a rotten member, from the communion and company of all the faithful, and being so deprived, we judge that thou oughtest to be actually degraded: that done, we leave thee unto the secular powers, committing the degradation and actual execution of this our sentence, unto the reverend Lord and Bishop here present, with the authority and commandment aforesaid.
For these causes and others rising vpon the saide processe, by the Apostolique authoritie, and also the authoritie of our sayde reuerende Lorde the Cardinall, whych we doo vse in this our sentence definitiue, whiche wee sitting in our iudgement seate, declare in these writinges, hauing God onely before our eyes, and surely considering, that what measure we do meat vnto other, the same shalbe measured to vs againe: 1we pronoūce and declare sentētially and diffinitiuely, thee Iohn Castellane, beyng here present before vs, and iudge thee because of thy desertes, to be excōmunicate with the most great excōmunication, and therewithall to be culpable of treason against the diuine maiesty, and a mortall enemy of the Catholicke fayth, and veritie of the Gospell: also to be a manifest hereticke, & a folower & partaker of the execrable