TRUE... it is a propaganda hit piece.. Written so that people in future times could not re-write history.. Written as a memorial to heinous suffering and malfeasance.. John said as much himself.. Except the word propaganda had not been coined yet.. At the time of "its" writing the Roman Catholic hierarchy had real civil power in many country's..
Its no secret that several Popes were no more than con men and robbers if not murderers and Sadists.. Fox's Book of Martyrs testifys to some but by means not all the goings on that John Fox knew of..
The testimony that the Roman Catholic Church was a Cultic aberation during certain times in its history is recorded elsewhere as well.. i.e. Millers Church History.. Halles handbook..
It has been said, "Power does corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".. Its no mystery that this can happen.. It happened to some Calvinist situations as well.. Wading thru the muck of church history takes a strong stomach.. Many have not the strengh for it.. Isreal became corrupted as well, several times.. Which is WHY God sent Prophets when Civil power(the Kingdom) was corrupted..
***TRUE... it is a propaganda hit piece.. Written so that people in future times could not re-write history.. Written as a memorial to heinous suffering and malfeasance.. ***
John Foxe is anxious to prove firstly the complete hatefulness, evil and corruption of the Catholic church, the papacy and the monastic orders, and secondly to assert the right of the monarch to appoint bishops and clergy, and to dispose of church property and income at will. Everything (and that means everything) which supports this view goes in; everything which does not is either left out, glossed over, or rejected as ipso facto untrue because asserted by his opponents. If his sources support his prejudices, his credulity knows no bounds; he is as ready to peddle the myth of Jewish blood-sacrifices of Christian children as he is to believe in the foundation of the church in England by Joseph of Arimathea.
Are you supporting appointments of bishops by kings? Are you with those who believe in a creed bought and paid for by the English and Scottish parliaments? Do you believe that the Anglo Saxons and Celts were greater theologists than the Apostles?
***The testimony that the Roman Catholic Church was a Cultic aberation during certain times in its history is recorded elsewhere as well.. i.e. Millers Church History.. Halles handbook.. ***
Copies of propaganda hit pieces do not testify as to their accuracy.
There are many websites that say variations on the same theme on many subjects including global warming. They all agree to one extent or another. And, similarly, they are all wrong.