Complex sentence: Foxe's account of church history asserted a historical justification intended to establish the Church of England as a continuation of the true Christian church rather than a modern innovation, and it contributed significantly to a nationalistic repudiation of the Roman Catholic Church.
Split into simpler sentences: Foxe's account of church history asserted a historical justification intended to establish the Church of England as a continuation of the true Christian church, rather than a modern innovation. It contributed significantly to a nationalistic repudiation of the Roman Catholic Church.