I see.. So Fox’s Book of Martyrs is also a fabrication since it was written primarily so that WHEN the “See” re-writes history for roman catholics John Fox wrote this so that the sacrifices of many would not be lost.. Millers Church History was written more or less for the same purpose.. Excesses of the reformation indeed(Sic).. The RCC has no lack of excesses.. itself..
http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html
Hosepipe, as the Latins here will attest, I am no apologist for the Roman Church, especially the medieval Roman Church. I do find it intellectually sloppy, however, to cling to silly notions like the “Roman Catholic” church attaining “primacy” in 313, or being “created” by Constantine the Great. The Reformers and their spiritual descendants don’t need falsifications to justify their revolt to anyone so far as I can see.
Lumping Orthodoxy in with all that is completely inappropriate. As you know, there was never a reformation in the East...nor did we burn heretics (well, the Russians did in the 1600s but they weren’t Protestants, they were ultra tradionalists).
John Fox wrote this so that the sacrifices of many would not be lost.
AMEN!
Foxe (correct spelling) was a propagandist for the British government - pure and simple.