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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.
Now this one clasp being opened, the other numbers that follow, are plain and manifest to the intelligent reader to be understood. For where mention is made of three years and a half: of one time, two times, & half a time, also of 1260. days, all these come to one reckoning, & signify 42. months, by which months, as is said, is signified the whole time of these primitive persecutions, as here in order may appear.
Now this one claspe beyng opened, the other numbers that follow, are plaine and manifest to the intelligent reader to be vnderstood. For where mention is made of three yeares and a half: of one tyme, two times, & halfe a tyme, also of 1260. dayes, all these come to one reckoning, & signifie 42. monthes, by which monthes, as is sayd, is signified the whole tyme of these primitiue persecutiōs, as here in order may appeare.
The mystical numbers in the Apocalypse opened. First, where mention is made, Apocal. chap. 11. that the two Prophets shall prophesy 1260. days. And also that the woman fleeing into the desert shall there be fed. 1260. days: who knoweth not, that. 1260. days make three years & a half: that is, months 142 Secondly, where we read, chap. 11. the bodies of the two foresaid Prophets shall lye in the streets of the great city unburied, the space of iij. days & a half, and after the said iij. days & a half they shall revive again, &c. let the hours of these iij. days and a half (which be 42.) be reckoned every day for a Sabbath of years, or else every day for a month, and they come to months 242 Thirdly, where as in the same book is expressed that the woman had ij. wings given her to fly unto the desert for a time, times, and half a time, give for one time, one year, or one day: for ij. times ij. years, or ij. days: for half a time, half a year, or half a day. And so it is manifest, that those three years & a half, mounteth to months