A67927:1256
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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Linc. At your pleasure M. Latimer, take as much ease as you will.
Linc. At your pleasure M. Latimer, take as much ease as you wyll.
Lati. Your Lordship gently exhorted me in many words, to come to the unity of the Church. I confess (my Lord) a Catholic Church, spread throughout all the world, in the which no man may err, without the which unity of the Church no man can be saved:1 but I know perfectly by Gods word that this Church is in all the world, and hath not his foundation in Rome only, as you say, and me thought your Lordship brought a place out of the Scriptures to confirm the same, that there was a jurisdiction given to Peter, in that Christ bad him regere, govern his people. In deed my Lord, saint Peter did well and truly his office, in that he was bid regere: but since the Bishops of Rome have taken a new kind of regere. In deed they ought to regere, but how my Lord? not as they will them selves: but this regere must be hedged in, and digged in. They must regere, but secundum verbum dei: they must rule, but according to the word of God. But the Bishops of Rome have turned regere secundum verbum dei, into regere secundum voluntatem suam: