A67926:890
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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Moreover,1 the Bysh. scraped the nails of both his hands with a piece of glass, saying: By this scraping we take away from thee all power to sacrifice, to consecrate, & to bless, which thou hast received by the anointing of thy hands. Then he took from him the Chesille, saying: by good right we do despoil thee of this priestly ornament,2 which signifieth charity: for certainly thou hast forsaken the same, & all innocency. Then taking away the stole, he said:3 Thou hast villainously rejected & despised the sign of our Lord, which is represented by this stole: wherefore we take it away from thee, and make thee unable to exercise and use the office of Priesthood, & all other things appertaining to Priesthood. The degradation of the order of Priesthood being thus ended, they proceeded to the order of Deacon.4 Then the ministers gave him the book of the Gospels, which the Bysh. took away, saying: we take away from thee all power to read the Gospels in the Church of God, for it appertaineth only to such as are worthy. After this he spoiled him of the Dalmatic, which is the vesture that the Deacons use,5 saying: we deprive thee of this Levitical order: for so much as thou hast not fulfilled thy ministry & office.6 After this the bysh. took away the stole from behind his back, saying: we justly take away from thee the white stole which thou haddest received undefiledly,7 which also thou oughtest to have borne in the presence of our Lord: and to the end that the people dedicate unto the name of Christ, may take by thee example, we prohibit thee any more to exercise or use the office of Deaconship.8 Then they proceeded to the disgrading of Subdeaconship, & taking away from him the book of the Epistles, & his Subdeacons vesture, deposed him from reading of the Epistles in the Church of God: