Another Examination of SPURDANCE, before the Bishop in his…: The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal… by John Foxe

THE NEW AND COMPLETE BOOK of MARTYRS; OR, An Universal History of Martyrdom: BEING FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS, Revised and Corrected, with Additions and great Improvements.CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES, PERSECUTIONS and SUFFERINGS of the HOLY MARTYRS; AND THE MANY DREADFUL Persecutions against the Church of CHRIST in all Parts of the World, BY PAGANS, JEWS, TURKS, PAPISTS, AND OTHERS, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRESENT PERIOD.INCLUDING THE Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom of Our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST; WITH THE Martyrdom of the APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, and other PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS.The Ten Great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors.The Persecutions in Persia, under Saphores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. The Martyrdom of the Missionaries in China: The Persecutions in the East-Indies: The Barbarities exercised by the Spaniards in America: And the Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia.The Persecutions exercised by the Papists in various Parts of Europe.Together with a COMPLETE HISTORY of the MARTYRDOMS of The FAITHFUL and VIRTUOUS in the First Ages of the World: The Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous Nations.

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Another Examination of SPURDANCE, before the Bishop in his House.

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Bishop. SIRRAH, dost thou not believe in the catholic faith of the holy church?

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Spurred. I believe Christ's catholic church.

Spurd. I believe Christ's catholic church.

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Bishop. Yea in Christ's church, of which the pope is head? Dost thou not believe that the pope is supreme head of the catholic church?

Bishop. Yea in Christ's church, of which the pope is head? Dost thou not belive that the pope is supreme head of the catholic church?

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Spurred. No. I believe not that he should be above the apostles, if he take them to be his predecessors. For when there came a thought among the apostles, who should be the greatest when their master was gone, Christ answered them unto their thoughts, "The kings of the earth bear dominion above each other, but ye shall not so do. For he that will be greatest among you shall become servant unto all. How is it then (said I) that he will climb so high above his fellows? And also we were sworn in my master king Henry's time, that we should, to the utmost of our power, never consent to him again. And therefore as he hath nothing to do here in England, so neither hath he in his own country more than a bishop hath in his diocese.

Another Examination of SPURDANCE, before the Bishop in his House.

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Another Examination of SPURDANCE, before the Bishop in his House.

Another Examination of SPURDANCE, before the Bishop in his House.