A67927:1252
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 2] 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 2] 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 Christ spake expressly to Peter saying,1 pasce oves meas, & rege oves meas, the which word doth not only declare a certain ruling of Christs flock, but includeth also a certain preeminence and government, and therefore is the king called Rex à regendo: so that in saying rege, Christ declared a power which he gave to Peter, which jurisdiction and power Peter by hand delivered to Clement, and so in all ages hath it remained in the sea of Rome. This if you shall confess with us, & acknowledge with all the realm your errors and false assertions, then shall you do that which we most desire, then shall we rest upon the first part of our Commission, then shall we receive you, acknowledge you one of the Church, and according to the authority given unto us,2 minister unto you upon due repentance, the benefit of absolution, to the which the King and Queen their Majesties were not ashamed to submit them selves, although they of them selves were unspotted, and therefore needed no reconciliation, yet lest the putrification and rottenness of all the body might be noisome, and do damage to the head also, they (as I said) most humbly submitted them selves to my Lord Cardinal his grace, by him, as Legate to the Popes holiness, to be partakers of the reconciliation: but if you shall stubbornly persevere in your blindness, if you will not acknowledge your errors, if you as you stand now alone, will be singular in your opinions, if by schism and heresy you will still divide your self from our Church, then must we proceed to the second part of the Commission, which we would be loth to do, that is, not to condemn you, for that we can not do (that the temporal sword of the Realm, and *not we will do) but to separate you from us, acknowledge you to be none of us, to renounce you as no member of the Church, to declare that you are filius perditionis, a lost child, and as you are a rotten member of the Church, so to cut you of from the Church, and so to commit you to the temporal Judges, permitting them to proceed against you, according to the tenor of their laws. Therefore M.
for Christe spake expresly to Peter saying,1 pasce oues meas, & rege oues meas, the whiche worde doth not onely declare a certayne rulyng of Christes flocke, but includeth also a certayne preeminence and gouernment, and therefore is the king called Rex à regendo: so that in saying rege, Christe declared a power whiche he gaue to Peter, whiche iurisdiction and power Peter by hand deliuered to Clement, and so in all ages hath it remayned in the sea of Rome. This if you shall confesse with vs, & acknowledge with all the realme your errours and false assertions, then shall you doe that whiche we most desire, then shall we rest vppon the first part of our Commission, then shall we receiue you, acknowledge you one of the Churche, and according to the authoritie geuen vnto vs,