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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 you have heard the life and death of this Tho. Becket: of whom what is to be judged, let his own acts and facts declare. And albeit the scripture ought to be only the rule to us to judge all things by: yet if any shall require farther testimony (partly to satisfy their minds therein) ye shall hear the judgements of certain men, in years and times almost as ancient as himself, what they writ, and affirm of him.1
Thus you haue heard the life and death of this Tho. Becket: of whom what is to be iudged, let his owne actes and facts declare. And albeit the scripture ought to be onely the rule to vs to iudge all thinges by: yet if any shall require farther testimony (partly to satisfy their minds therin) ye shal heare the iudgementes of certayn men, in yeres and tymes almost as auncient as himself, what they writ, and affirme of him.1
- 1What is to be thought whether Thomas Becket dyed a saint or not.What is to be thought whether Thomas Becket dyed a sainct or not.
And first to begin with the testimony of one of his own religion, and also not far (as it appeareth) from his own time: who writing of his martyrdom & miracles, thus testifieth of the judgement and sentence of divers concerning his promotion and behaviour. The Chronicle being written in latin, & having the name of the author cut out, thus beginneth: Quoniam verò multi. &c. And in the first book, cap. 8. it follow with in this maner: Nonnullis tamen id circa promotionem eius visum est minus canonicū, quòd ad eam magis operata est regis instantia, quàm cleri vel populi vota. Praesumptionis quoque vel indiscretionis fuisse notatum est, quòd qui remū tenere vix idoneus videbatur, primum gubernaculi locum suscepit, &c. & mox: magis etiam secularia tū sapiens, tam sanctum tantae dignitatis fastigium non horrens renuiise, sed ultroneus ascendisse creditus. 1