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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.
This Licinius being a Dane borne, and made first Caesar by Galerius, 1as is above specified, was afterward joined with Constantinus in government of the Empire, and in setting forth the Edicts, which before we have described: although it seemeth, all this to be done of him with a dissembling mind. For so is he in all histories described, to be a man passing all other in desire of unsatiable riches, given to lechery, hasty, stubborn, and furious. To learning he was such an enemy, that he named the same a poison and a common pestilence,2 and especially the knowledge of the laws. He thought no vice worse became a Prince, then learning, because he him self was unlearned. Eutropius, Letus, Ignatius. Euseb. Lib. 8. cap. 13.
This Licinius being a Dane borne, and made first Caesar by Galerius, 1as is aboue specified, was afterward ioyned with Constantinus in gouernement of the Empyre, and in setting foorth the Edicts, which before we haue described: although it seemeth, all this to be done of him wt a dissembling minde. For so is he in all hystories described, to be a man passing all other in desire of vnsatiable riches, geuen to lechery, hasty, stubburne, and furious. To learning hee was such an enemie, that he named the same a poyson and a common pestilence,2 and especially the knowledge of the lawes. Hee thought no vice worse became a Prince, then learning, because hee him selfe was vnlearned. Eutropius, Letus, Ignatius. Euseb. Lib. 8. cap. 13.
- 1The persecution of the church under Licinius.The persecution of the church vnder Licinius.
- 2An enemy to learning. Euseb. Lib. 8. cap. 13.