A67922:1967
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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1Of such prodigious fantasies, our monkish histories be full, and not only our histories of England, but also the Heathen histories of the Gentiles be stuffed with such kind of dreams of much like effect.
1Of such prodigious fantasies, our monkish histories bee full, and not onely our histories of England, but also the Heathen histories of the Gentiles be stuffed with such kynd of dreames of much like effect.
- 1Monkish dreams.Monkishe dreames.
Of such a like dream we read of the mother of Ethelstane, how the Moon did spring out of her womb, & gave light to all England. Also of king Charles the Emperor, how he was led by a thread to see the torments of hell. Like wise of Furceus the Hermit mentioned in the third book of Bede, who saw the joys of heaven and the 4. fires that should destroy the world: the one of lying, for breaking our promise made at Baptism. The second fire was of covetous. The third of dissension. The fourth was of the fire of impiety and wrongful dealing. Item, in like sort of the dream of Dunstan, and of the same Ethelwold, to whom appeared the three bishops, Bristanus, Birinus, and Swithinus, &c. Item, of the dream of the mother of this Ethelwold, who being great with him, did see a golden Eagle flee out of her mouth, &c. Of the dream likewise, or the vision of King Edgar concerning the falling of the two apples,1 and of the pots, one being full of water, the other empty, &c. Also of king Edward the Confessor, touching the ruin of the land by the conquest of the Normans. We read also in the history of Astiages, how he dreamed of Cyrus. And likewise of many other dreams in the books of the monks, & of the Ethnic writers. For what cannot either the idle vanity of mans head, or the deception of the lying spirit work by man: in foreshowing such earthly events as happen commonly in this present world? But here is a difference to be understood between these earthly dreams, speaking of earthly things,