A67922:1892
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
Book 3 › In Regem Alfredum, & virtutum illius claram memoriam.
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.
At the presence whereof (as they say) certain images there standing by, bowed down themselves, and reverenced the same, with lie and all. But such deceivable miracles of stocks and images in monkish and friarly temples, be to us no news, especially here in England: where we have been so inured with the like, & so many, that such wily practises cannot be to us invisible: though this crownshorn generation, think themselves to dance in a net. But the truth is,1 while they think to deceive the simple, these wily beguily most of all deceive themselves, as they will find except they repent. By this Pope Sergius, first came up to bear about candles on Candlemas day: for the purifying of the blessed virgin. As though the sacred conception of Jesus the son of God, were to be purified as a thing unpure, and that with candle light.
At the presence whereof (as they say) certaine images there standing by, bowed downe themselues, and reuerē ced the same, with lie and all. But such deceiueable miracles of stocks and images in monkish and frierly tēples, be to vs no newes, especially here in England: where we haue bene so inured with the like, & so many, that such wily practises cannot be to vs inuisible: though this crownshorn generation, thinke themselues to daunce in a nette. But the truthe is,1 while they thinke to deceaue the simple, these wily beguily most of all deceiue themselues, as they will finde except they repent. By this Pope Sergius, first came vp to beare about candels on Candelmas day: for ye purifying of the blessed virgine. As though the sacred conception of Iesus the sonne of God, were to be purified as a thing vnpure, and that with candell light.
- 1Bearing of candles on Candlemas day how it came up.Bearing of candels on Candlemas day how it came vp.
After Sergius,