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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 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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Glo. I went not about to recite any places of Scripture in that place of my book:1 for then if I had not recited it faithfully, you might have had just occasion of reprehension: but I only in that place formed an argument á maior•, in this sense: that if in the old law the Priests had power to decide matters of controversies, much more then ought the authority to be given to the clergy in the new law: and I pray you in this point what availeth the rehersall, secundum legem dei.
Glo. I went not about to recite any places of Scripture in that place of my booke:1 for then if I had not recited it faythfully, you myght haue had iust occasion of reprehention: but I only in that place formed an argument á maior•, in this sense: that if in the olde lawe the Priestes had power to decide matters of controuersies, muche more then ought the authoritie to be geuen to the clergy in the new law: and I pray you in this poynt what auayleth the rehersall, secundum legem dei.
- 1The Catholics allege the Scriptures but take not all.The Catholicks alleage the Scriptures but take not all.
Lati. Yes my Lord, very much. For I acknowledge authority to be given to the spirituality to decide matter of Religion, and, as my Lord said even now, to regere: but they must do it secundum verbum dei, and not secundum voluntatem suam, according to the word and law of God, and not after their own will, after their own imaginations and fantasies. The Bishop of Gloucester would have spoken more, saving that the Bishop of Lincoln said, that they came not to dispute with M. Latimer, but to take his determinate answers to their Articles, and so began to propose the same Articles which were proposed to M. Ridley. But M. Latimer interrupted him, speaking to the bishop of Gloucester: well my Lord, I could wish more faithful dealing with Gods word, and not to leave out a part, and snatch a part here and an other there, but to rehearse the whole faithfully. But the Bishop of Lincoln not attending to this saying of Master Latimer,