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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.
1Two other examples yet more will I add out of the said Cassianus, to declare how the subtlety of Satan, thorough superstition and false colour of holiness, blindeth ye miserable eyes of such which rather attend mens traditions, then the word of God. In the xl. chap. of the said author in his book de Gastrimargia, is told of a certain Abbot named Joannes, in the desert of Scythia, who sent ij. of his Novices with figs unto one that was sick in the wilderness 18. miles off from the Church. It chanced these two young Novices missing the way, wandered so long in the wild forest or wilderness, and could not find the Celie, that for emptiness and weariness they waxed faint & tired. And yet rather would they die then taste the figs committed to them to carry,2 and so did, for shortly after they were found dead, their figs lying whole by them.
1Two other examples yet more will I adde out of the said Cassianus, to declare how the subtiltie of Sathan, thorough superstition and false colour of holynes, blindeth ye miserable eyes of such which rather attend mens traditions, then the word of God. In the xl. chap. of the sayd author in his booke de Gastrimargia, is told of a certain Abbot named Ioannes, in the desert of Scythia, who sent ij. of hys Nouices with figs vnto one that was sicke in the wildernes 18. miles off from the Church. It chaunced these two yong Nouices missing the way, wandered so long in the wild forest or wildernes, and could not find the Celie, that for emptines and wearines they waxed faint & tired. And yet rather would they die then tast the figs committed to them to cary,2 and so dyd, for shortly after they were found dead, their figges lying whole by them.
- 1Cassianus lib. de spiritu Gastrimarg. cap. 40.
- 2Superstition.