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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.
The childing or bearing woman,1 why may she not be Baptised: seeing that the fruitfulness of the flesh is no fault before the eyes of almighty God. For our first parents in Paradise, after they had transgressed: lost their immortality by the just judgement of God which they had taken before. Then, because almighty God would not mankind utterly to perish because of his fall (although he lost now his immortality for his trespass) yet of his benign piety, left notwithstanding to him the fruit and generation of issue. Wherefore the issue and generation of mans nature, which is conserved by the gift of almighty God, how can it be debarred from the grace of holy Baptism?
The childing or bearing woman,1 why may she not be Baptised: seeing that the fruitfulnes of the flesh is no fault before the eyes of almighty God. For our first parentes in Paradise, after they had transgressed: lost their immortallitie by the iust iudgement of God which they had takē before. Then, because almighty God woulde not mankinde vtterly to perish because of hys fall (although he lost nowe hys immortallitie for hys trespasse) yet of hys benigne pietie, left notwithstanding to hym the fruit and generation of issue. Wherefore the issue and generation of mans nature, which is conserued by the gift of almighty God, how can it be debarred from the grace of holy Baptisme?
- 1The answer.The aunswere.
As concerning the churching of women after they have travailed: where ye demand after how many days they ought to go to the Church, this you have learned in the old law,1 that for a man child .30. days, after a woman child .66. days be appointed her to keep in. Albeit this you must take to be understand in a mystery. For if she should the hour after her travail enter into the Church to give thanks, she committed therein no sin. For why the lust and pleasure of the flesh, and not the travail and pain of the flesh is sin. In the conjunction of the flesh is pleasure, but in the travail and bringing forth of the child is pain & groaning. As unto the mother of all it is said: In sorrow thou shalt travail. Therefore if we forbid the woman after her labour to enter the church, then what do we else but count the same the punishment given unto her, for sin? Therefore for the woman after her labour to be baptised,