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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vincentius, and Laziardus Celestinus, reciting the names of divers books, bearing the title of Cyprian (moe perchance then be truly his) do collect out of them a certain extract of his most pithy sentences, all which here to repeat were to tedious. To give a taste of the special, I thought it not impertinent. As where he speaking of the treasures of a rich man, exhorteth saying: Ne dormiat in thesauris tuis, 1quod pauperi prodesse potest i. Let it not sleep in thy treasures, that may profit the poor. Duo nunquam veterascunt in homine, cor semper novas cogitationes machinando: lingua, cordis vanas conceptions proferendo. ⟨p. 70⟩i. Two things never wax old in man, the hart ever in imagining new cogitations, the tongue ever in uttering the vain conceptions of the hart. Quod aliquando de necessitate amittendum est, sponte prodivina remuneratione distribuendum est .i. That which a man must needs forgo of necessity, wisdom it is a man to distribute so, that God may everlastingly reward him. Disciplina est morum praesentium ordinata correctio, & malorum praeteritorum regularis obseruatio. i. Discipline is an ordinate amendment of manners present, and a regular observation of evils past. Integritas ibi nulla esse potest, ubi qui improbos damnent, desunt: & soli qui damnentur, occurrunt. There can be no integrity, whereas they which should condemn the wicked are ever wanting: and they only which are to be condemned, are ever present. Avari ad hoc tantum possident, quae habent, ut ne alteri possidere liceat. A covetous man only possesseth his goods for this, because an other should not possess them. Sericum & purpurum indutae, Christum induere non possunt. Women that advance themselves in putting on silks and purple, cannot lightly put on Christ. Foeminae crines suos inficiunt malo praesagio: Capillos enim sibi flammeos auspicari non metuunt. They which colour their locks with red and yellow, begin betime to prognosticate, of that colour their heads shall be in hell. Qui se pingunt in hoc seculo, aliter quam creavit Deus metuant ne cum resurrectionis venerit dies, artifex creaturam suam non recognoscat. They which love to paint themselves in this world otherwise then God hath created them: let them fear, least when the day cometh of resurrection, the creator will not know them. Qui pauperi eleemosinam dat, Deo suavitatis odorem sacrificat.
Vincentius, and Laziardus Celestinus, recyting the names of dyuers bookes, bearyng the tytle of Cyprian (moe perchaunce then be truly his) do collect out of them a certaine extract of his most pithy sentences, al which here to repeat were to tedious. To giue a tast of the speciall, I thought it not impertinent. As where he speaking of the treasures of a rich man, exhorteth saying: Ne dormiat in thesauris tuis,