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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.
This Anselm was an Italian in the City of Augusta borne, and brought up in the Abbey of Beck in Normandy: where, he was so straight a follower of virtue, that (as the story recordeth) he wished rather to be without sin in hell,1 then in heaven with sin. Which saying and wish of his (if it were his) may seem to proceed out of a mind neither speaking orderly according after the phrase and understanding of the scripture, nor yet sufficiently acquainted with the justification of a christen man. Further, they report him to be so far from singularity: that he should say it was the vice which thrust the angels first out of heaven,2 and man out of paradise.
This Anselme was an Italian in the Citie of Augusta borne, and brought vp in the Abbey of Becke in Normandy: where, he was so straight a folower of vertue, that (as the story recordeth) he wished rather to bee without sinne in hell,1 then in heauen with sinne. Which saying and wish of his (if it were his) may seeme to proceede out of a mynde neither speaking orderly according after the phrase and vnderstanding of the scripture, nor yet sufficiently acquainted with the iustification of a christen man. Further, they report him to be so farre from singularitie: that hee should say it was the vice which thrust the angels first out of heauen,2 and man out of paradise.
- 1The saying of Anselm pondered.The saying of Anselme pondered.
- 2The vice of singularity.The vice of singularitie.