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John Foxe's Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Book of Martyrs, officially titled Acts and Monuments, which took a positive view of John's reign

The false miracle for example ( dramatised in 2. 1 ) is found only in Grafton, not in Hall or Holinshed ( although a similar scene is also outlined in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ), with which Shakespeare may have been familiar ).

John Foxe ( 1516 / 17 – 18 April 1587 ) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( properly The Acts and Monuments ), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I.

As is typical for the period, the full title was a paragraph long and is abbreviated by scholars as Acts and Monuments, although the book was popularly known then, as it is now, as Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

* Foxe's Acts and Monuments ; Hay Fleming's Martyrs and Confessors of St Andrews ; Cramond's Truth about Wishart ( 1898 ); and Dict.

John Chrysostom's homily upon Saint Babylas and the Acts of the Martyrs report the following story, that Babylas once refused the visiting pagan emperor, on account of his sinful ways, permission to enter the church and had ordered him to take his place among the penitents.

During the 16th century, its inhabitants became well known for Protestant radicalism A few of its citizens were martyred during the reign of Queen Mary I, and the Protestant martyrologist John Foxe recorded their stories in his famous work Acts and Monuments ( also known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs ).

* Acts of the Martyrs

We have in this martyrdom an excellent example of " Acts of Martyrs " properly so called.

* Acts of the Persian Martyrs ( these acts remember the victims of the persecution of Shapur II ; ample portions of this work have survived, though perhaps written by someone other than Maruthas )

After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed " substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment ", the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections.

Longenecker, " Acts of the Apostles ", in volume 9 of The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Frank E. Gaebelein, editor ( Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation, 1976 – 1984 ), page 476.

Acts of the Apostles records Paul traveling to the " region of Galatia and Phrygia ", which lay immediately west of Galatia.

Several sources informed Paul of conflicts within the church at Corinth: Apollos ( Acts 19: 1 ), a letter from the Corinthians, the " household of Chloe ", and finally Stephanas and his two friends who had visited Paul ( 1: 11 ; 16: 17 ).

Many believe " the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles originally constituted a two-volume work ", which scholars refer to as Luke-Acts.

* Keolker, James, " Last Acts, The Operas of Puccini and His Italian Contemporaries ", 2001.

This is perhaps why they believed that people should try to make themselves " pure " and " perfect ", and share things with others while willingly living in communal " harmony " ( Acts 4: 32-35 ) and practicing celibacy.

" the brethren ", Acts 18: 27, in addition to Priscilla and Aquila ), and it is easy to connect a sojourn of John in these provinces with the fact that the Holy Ghost did not permit the Apostle Paul on his second missionary journey to proclaim the Gospel in Asia, Mysia, and Bithynia ( Acts 16: 6 sq .).

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ", the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.

Under the terms of the marriage treaty, Philip was to be styled " King of England ", all official documents ( including Acts of Parliament ) were to be dated with both their names, and Parliament was to be called under the joint authority of the couple, for Mary's lifetime only.

Known collectively as " Artists United Against the U. S. Orphan Works Acts ", the diverse organizations joined forces to oppose the bills, which the groups believe " permits, and even encourages, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of protections currently available under the Copyright Act.

In the narrative of the book of Acts, while traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to " bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem ", the resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light.

" In her book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Steinem characterised the term as " cruel and ahistorical ", and elaborated on the repression of feminism under Hitler, noting that many prominent German feminists like Helene Stöcker, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and Clara Zetkin were forced to flee Nazi Germany while others were killed in concentration camps.

The " Recusancy Acts ", which began during the reign of Elizabeth I and which were repealed in 1650, imposed a number of punishments on those who did not participate in Anglican religious activity, including fines, property confiscation, and imprisonment.

Several of the key chronicles were written in the south-west of England, including the Gesta Stephani, or " Acts of Stephen ", and William of Malmesbury's Historia Novella, or " New History ".

The college's motto, " God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth ", is taken from Acts 17: 26.

The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos () is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17: 23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called " Agnostos Theos ", that is: the " Unknown god ", which Norden called " Un-Greek ".

The Acts became known as the " Clarendon Code ", after Lord Clarendon, even though he was not directly responsible for them and even spoke against the Five Mile Act.

If there are three readings, the first is from the Old Testament ( a term wider than " Hebrew Scriptures ", since it includes the Deuterocanonical Books ), or the Acts of the Apostles during Eastertide.

Guthrie also saw traces of Acts in Polycarp's letter to the Philippians ( written between 110-140 ) and one letter by Ignatius († about 117 ) and thought that Acts probably was current in Antioch and Smyrna not later than c. 115, and perhaps in Rome as early as c. 96.

Barnabas is one of the first teachers of the church at Antioch ( Acts 13: 1 ).

When Jesus told Lazarus ’ sister, Martha, that Lazarus would rise again, she replied, " I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day ". 11: 24 Also, one of the two main branches of the Jewish religious establishment, the Pharisees, believed in and taught the future resurrection of the body. Acts 23: 1-8

This presents a problem as the book of Acts records that Paul spent a significant amount of time with the church in Ephesus, and in fact was one of its founders.

That visit could not be the one referred to in the Book of Acts 27: 7, when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he continued a prisoner for two years.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

Another criticism of image veneration is found in the non-canonical 2nd-century Acts of John ( generally considered a gnostic work ), in which the Apostle John discovers that one of his followers has had a portrait made of him, and is venerating it:

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

In protest of the Townshend Acts, in 1769 Hanson was one of the signers of a nonimportation resolution that boycotted British imports until the acts were repealed.

The band are ranked number one on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and Classic Rocks " 50 Best Live Acts of All Time ".

The Factory Acts ( first one in 1802, then 1833 ) and the 1832 Master and Servant Act were the first laws regulating labour relations in the United Kingdom.

If one accepts that Luke was in fact the author of the Gospel bearing his name and also the Acts of the Apostles, certain details of his personal life can be reasonably assumed.

They listed it as one of the Intolerable Acts which precipitated the American Revolution.

Outside of the Book of Acts which contains the death of Saint Stephen, the Martyrdom is considered one of the earliest genuine accounts of a Christian martyrdom, and is one of the very few genuine accounts from the actual age of the persecutions.

One chapter later, a Gaius from Derbe, is again named as one of Paul's seven traveling companions who waited for him at Troas ( Acts 20: 4 ).

After the Boston Tea Party, the Quartering Act of 1774 was enacted ; it was one of the Intolerable Acts that pushed the colonies toward revolution.

I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord ; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his only-begotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him ( so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God ); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: " And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high " ( Luke 24: 49 ) and again " But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you " ( Acts 1: 8 ); being neither God ( the Father ) nor our God ( Christ ), but the minister of Christ ... subject and obedient in all things to the Son ; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father ... ( whom ) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.