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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.
Thus saith the Lord: The prophet which of arrogance will prophesy in my name, those things I have not commanded him, or else will prophesy in the name of other Gods, let him be slain. And if thou shall say with thy self, how shall I know what thing it is that the Lord hath not commanded to be spoken? This token shalt thou have to know it by. Whatsoever thing the Prophet in the name of God shall prophesy, & the same come not to pass, that mayest thou be sure the Lord hath not spoken, but the Prophet hath imagined through the haughtiness of his own mind, & therefore thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Thus sayth the Lord: The prophet which of arrogancie will prophesie in my name, those things I haue not commaūded him, or els will prophesie in the name of other Gods, let him be slaine. And if thou shall say with thy selfe, how shall I know what thyng it is that the Lord hath not commaunded to be spoken? This token shalt thou haue to know it by. Whatsoeuer thing the Prophet in the name of God shal prophesie, & the same come not to passe, that mayest thou be sure the Lord hath not spoken, but the Prophet hath imagined through the hautinesse of his owne mynde, & therfore thou shalt not be afrayd of him.
1When the time was expired that Hildebrand in his divination had set, and that neither the king was dead, neither the power of the Empire impaired: and fearing least by the words of his own mouth he should be reprehended and condemned, subtle•y turned his tale, saying, and persuading the ignorant people, that he meant not of the body of the king, but of his soul, as though the soul of the king had lost all,2 saving 6. of his knights or soldiers, or else had been dead during that space, and thus by these sleights he beguiled the ignorant people. Against such Prophets S. Gregory upon Ezekiel sayeth: Between true Prophets and false, this difference there is, that true Prophets, if they speak any thing upon their own mind, they be soon rebuked, but the false prophets, both they tell lies, and not having the spirit of truth, they persevere in their falsity.