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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.
Beside the number of the miracles which he said so many, that they lose their own credit: what disease is there belonging to man or woman in the curing whereof, some miracle hath not been wrought by this [Greek or Hebrew]: as fevers, fistula, the gout: toothache: palsy, consumption, falling sickness,1 leprosy, headache, broken arms, maimed legs, swelling throats, the raising up of the dead, which have been two days departed, with infinite other. And as all these have healed (for the most part) by one kind of salve (as a certain panacea) which was, with the water only of Canterbury, like as a cunning Smith which should open with one key all manner of locks: so again in reading of the story of these miracles, ye shall find the matter so conveyed, that the power of this dead Saint, was never twice showed upon any one disease, but every ⟨p. 226⟩divers disease to have a divers miracle.
Beside the nūber of the miracles which he sayd so many, that they lose theyr owne credit: what disease is there belonging to man or woman in the curing whereof, some miracle hath not bene wrought by this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: as feuers, fistula, the gout: toothache: palsey, consumption, falling sicknesse,1 leprosie, headache, broken armes, maymed legs, swelling throates, the raysing vp of the dead, which haue bene two dayes departed, with infinite other. And as all these haue healed (for the most part) by one kinde of salue (as a certayne panacea) which was, with the water onely of Caunterbury, like as a cunning Smith which should open with one key all maner of lockes: so agayne in reading of the story of these miracles, ye shall finde the matter so conueyed, that the power of this dead Saynt, was neuer twise shewed vpon any one disease, but euery ⟨p. 226⟩diuers disease to haue a diuers miracle.
- 1Aqua Cantuariensis.