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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.
He that giveth an alms to the poor, sacrificeth to God an odour of sweet smell. Contemnenda est omnis iniuria praesentium molorum, fiducia futurorum bonorum. All injury of evils present to be neglected, for the good hope of good things to come. Nihil prodest verbis proferre virtutem, & factis destruere. To set out virtue in words, and to destroy the same in facts, is nothing worth. Quo plures domi sint tibi liberi, hoc plus tibi non recondendum sed erogandum est, quia multorum jam delicta redimenda sunt multorum purgandae conscientiae. The more children and greater household thou hast at home the more cause thou hast not to horde up, but to disperse abroad, for that many sins are to be redeemed many consciences are to be purged.
He that gyueth an almes to the poore, sacrificeth to God an odour of swete smell. Contemnenda est omnis iniuria praesentium molorum, fiducia futurorum bonorum. All iniurie of euils presēt to be neglected, for the good hope of good thinges to come. Nihil prodest verbis proferre virtutem, & factis destruere. To set out vertue in wordes, and to destroy the same in factes, is nothing worth. Quo plures domi sint tibi liberi, hoc plus tibi non recondendum sed erogandum est, quia multorum iam delicta redimenda sunt multorum purgandae conscientiae. The mo children and greater houshoulde thou hast at home the more cause thou hast not to horde vp, but to disperse abroode, for that many sinnes are to be redeemed many consciences are to be purged.
1¶Moreover, least the Papists here should take an occasion by this text, grounded upon the text of Tobi, cap. 4. Alms (saith he) delivereth from all sin and death: to build up the works of satisfaction, the said Cyprian. Lib. 4. Epist, 2. more plainly expoundeth both himself, and that place of Scripture, writing in these words: Quia scriptum est, Eleemosina ab omni peccato, & morte liberat. Yob. 4. non utique ab ea morte, quam semel Christi sanguis extinxit, & a qua nos salutaris Baptismi & tedemptoris nostri gratia liberavit, sed ab illa quae per delicta postmodum serpit. &c. That is: Alms doth deliver from all sin and from death. Yob. 4. not from that (saith Cyprian) which the blood of Christ hath once extincted, and from which the wholesome grace of our Baptism, and of our redeemer hath delivered us, but from that death which afterward creepeth in by sin. &c. Cyprian. Lib. 4. Epist. 2. by which words it is apparent, that Cyprian meaneth this deliverance (which cometh by alms giving) from death and sin, not to be expounded nor to be taken for death everlasting, from which only the blood of Christ doth save us, but for temporal or transitory punishment, which is wont to be inflicted in this body of sin. For so it is nothing repugnant, but that temporal virtues may have their temporal rewards in this life, & likewise sins committed may have temporal punishments both of us and in our families, our eternal salvation standing evermore firm in Christ yet notwithstanding.