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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
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As touching his natural disposition and wit, he was ⟨p. 102⟩very eloquent, a good philosopher, & in disputation sharp and ingenious.1 He was accustomed to say, that an Emperor ought to refuse no labour, for the utility of the common weal: yea, & that to adventure the mangling of his body for the remedy thereof, but if otherwise it may be holpen to cherish the same. This Aurelius, Victor, Pomponius, Letus, & Ignatius write of him. And Aelius Lampridus saith writing upon the life of Heliogabalus, that Constantinus was wont to say, that an Empire was given by the determinate purpose of God, that he to whom it was given should so employ his diligence, as he might be thought worthy of the same at the hands of the giver. Which same saying also Augustine noteth in his 3. book against Cresconius. 2epist. 49. and 50.
As touching his naturall disposition and wit, he was ⟨p. 102⟩very eloquent, a good philosopher, & in disputation sharp and ingenious.1 He was accustomed to say, that an Emperour ought to refuse no labor, for the vtilitie of the common weale: yea, & that to aduenture the mangling of hys body for the remedy thereof, but if otherwaies it maye bee holpen to cherish the same. This Aurelius, Victor, Pomponius, Letus, & Ignatius write of him. And Aelius Lampridus saith writing vppon the life of Heliogabalus, that Constantinus was woont to saye, that an Empire was giuen by the determinate purpose of God, that he to whom it was giuen should so imploy his diligēce, as he might be thought worthy of the same at the hands of the gyuer. Which same saiing also Augustine noteth in his 3. booke against Cresconius. 2epist. 49. and 50.
- 1The common saying of Constantinus.
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