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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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That it is laudable and profitable, that the venerable Images of the Crucifix and other Saints, should be had in the Church as a remembrance, and to the honour and worship of Jesus Christ and his Saints.
That it is laudable and profitable, that the venerable Images of the Crucifix and other Sayntes, should be had in the Church as a remembraunce, and to the honour and worship of Iesus Christ and his Sayntes.
That it is laudable and profitable, to deck & to clothe those Images, and to set up burning lights before them, to the honour of the said Saints.
That it is laudable and profitable, to decke & to clothe those Images, and to set vp burning lightes before them, to the honor of the sayd Sayntes.
To these Articles whether he did subscribe or no, it is uncertain.1 It appeareth by his Epistle above written to the Bishop, that he durst not consent unto them, where he writeth in these words: His ego nudis sententijs subscribere non audeo, quia popularis superstitionis diutius duraturae, quoad possum, autorculus esse nolo. &c. But yet whether he was compelled afterward to agree, through the cruel handling of the Bishops, it is in doubt. By the words and the Title in Tonstalles Register prefixed before the Articles, it may seem that he subscribed. The words of the Register be these: Hugo Latimerus in sacra Theologia Bacch. in universitate Cantab. coram Cant. Archiepiscopo, Johan. Lond. Episcopo, reliquáque concione apud Westmonst. vocatus, confessus est & recognovit fidem suam, sic sentiendo ut sequitur, in his artic. xxi. die Martij. Anno. 1531. If these words be true, it may be so thought that he subscribed. And whether he so did, no great matter nor marvel, the iniquity of the time being such, that either he must needs so do, or else abide the Bishops blessing, that is, cruel sentence of death,