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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.
In their doctrine and teaching they were so diligent & painful, that Reinerius a writer about their time, (an extreme enemy against them) in a long process, wherein he describeth their doctrine and teaching, testifieth: that he heard of one which did know the party, that a certain heretic (saith he) only to turn a certain person away from our faith, and to bring him to his, (in the night, and in y• winter time) swam over the river called Ibis, to come to him and to teach him: moreover so perfect they were then in the Scriptures, that the said Reinerius saith, he did hear and see a man of the country unlettered, which could recite over the whole book of Job word by word, without book: with divers other, which had the whole new testament perfectly by hart.
In their doctrine and teaching they were so diligent & painefull, that Reinerius a writer about their time, (an extreme enemy agaynst them) in a long proces, wherin he describeth their doctrine and teaching, testifieth: yt he heard of one which did know the party, that a certayne heretick (sayth he) onely to turne a certaine person away from our faith, and to bring him to his, (in the night, and in y• winter time) swamme ouer the riuer called Ibis, to come to him and to teach him: moreouer so perfect they were then in the Scriptures, that the sayd Reinerius sayth, he did heare and see a man of the coūtry vnlettered, which could recite ouer the whole booke of Iob word by word, without booke: with diuers other, which had the whole new testament perfectly by hart.
And although some of them, rather merely then unskilfully, expounded the words of 1. Joan. 1Sui non receperunt eum, Swine did not receive him: yet were they not so ignorant and void of learning, nor yet so few in number but that they did mightily prevail. Insomuch that Reinerius hath these words. Non erat qui eos impedire auderet propter potentiam & multitudinem fautorum suorum Inquisitioni & examinationi saepe interfui. Et computatae sunt 40. Ecclesiae, quae haeresi infectae fueruntac in yna parochia Cammach fueruut decem eorum scholae. &c. That is, There was none durst stop them, for the power and multitude of their favourers. I have often been at their inquisition. & examination. And there were numbered 40. churches, infected with their heresy, insomuch that in one parish of can mach, were x, open schools of them. &c. Haec ille.