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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.
For that I hear there be some, which complain the old accustomed haunting of their temples, & that the power of such darkness is cut of and taken away: which thing surely I would take in better part, were it not that the violent rebellion of flagitious error, were so fixed in many mens hearts, whereby they thirst after the utter subversion of the common weal and Empire.
For that I heare there be some, which complaine the olde accustomed haunting of their temples, & that the power of such darkenesse is cut of and taken away: which thing surely I would take in better part, were it not that the violent rebellion of flagitious errour, were so fixed in many mens heartes, whereby they thirst after the vtter subuersion of the common weale and Empire.
Such was the goodness of this Emperor Constantinus, or rather such was the providence of almighty God toward his Church, in stirring him up: that all his care and study of mind was set upon nothing else, but only how to benefit & enlarge the commodities of the same. Neither was it to him enough to deliver the Church and people of God,1 from outward vexation of foreign tyrants and persecutors. No less beneficial was his godly care also in quieting the inward dissentions and disturbance within the Church among the Christian bishops themselves, according as we read of Moses the deliverer of the Israelites, in agreeing the brethren together, when he saw them at variance. Exod. 2. No less also did his vigilant study extend in erecting, restoring, & enriching the Churches of God in all Cities, and in providing for the ministers of the same. And therefore writing to Anilinus his chief captain, declareth his will & mind to him in letters, concerning the goods which did appertain to the Churches of the Christians: that he should procure vigilantly for the same: that all such goods, houses, and gardens, belonging before to the right of Churches, should again be restored in all speedy wise: and that he therein might be certified with speed. &c.