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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.
And although scarcely any testimony is to be taken of that age (being all blinded and corrupted with superstition) yet let us hear what Neuburgensis an ancient Historiographer saith: who in the days of the son of this K. Henry the ij. prosecuting his history unto King Richard the first hath these words:1 writing of Thomas Becket: Sanè cum plerique soleant in his quos amant & laudant affec•u quodam propensiori, sed prudentia parciori, quicquid ab eis geritur, approbare: planè ego in viro illo venerabili ea quae ita ab ipso acta sunt, 2quum nulla exindè proveniret utilitas sed feruor tantùm accenderetur regius, ex quo tot mala postmodum pullulasse noscuntur, laudanda nequaquam césuerim, licet ex laudabilizelo processerint: Sicut in beatiff▪ apostolorum principe, quòd gentes suo exemplo judaizare coegit: in quo eum doctor gentium reprehensibilem declaret fuisse, licèt cum constet Laudabili hoc pietate fecisse &c. That is in English.
And although scarcely any testimony is to be taken of that age (being all blinded and corrupted with superstittiō) yet let vs heare what Neuburgensis an auncient Historiographer sayth: who in the dayes of the sonne of thys K. Henry the ij. prosecuting his history vnto King Richard the first hath these wordes:1 writing of Thomas Becket: Sanè cum plerique soleant in his quos amant & laudant affec•u quodam propensiori, sed prudentia parciori, quicquid ab eis geritur, approbare: planè ego in viro illo venerabili ea quae ita ab ipso acta sunt, 2quum nulla exindè proueniret vtilitas sed feruor tantùm accenderetur regius, ex quo tot mala postmodum pullulasse noscuntur, laudanda nequaquam césuerim, licet ex laudabilizelo processerint: Sicut in beatiff▪ apostolorum principe, quòd gentes suo exemplo iudaizare coegit: in quo eum doctor gentium reprehensibilem declaret fuisse, licèt cum constet Laudabili hoc pietate fecisse &c. That is in English.