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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
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Besides, there was a whole council kept in Toulouse about 355. years to fore, and all against these Ualdenses: The which also were condemned in an other coū cell at Rome before that.
Besides, there was a whole councell kept in Theolouse about 355. yeares to fore, and all agaynst these Ualdenses: The which also were condemned in an other coū cell at Rome before that.
What great persecutions were raised up against them in France. by these 4. Archbishops before mentioned, it appeareth by their writings, whereof I will recite some of their words, which towards the end be these: Quis enim est solus ille peregrinus, qui condemnationem haereticorū Valdensium ignoret a long retro annis factam, tam famosam, tā publicam, tot & tantis laboribus, expensis, & sudoribus fidelium insecutam, & tot mortibus ipsorum infidelium solemniter damnatorum, publiceque punitorum tam fortiter sigillatam. &c. That is: Who is such a stranger, that knoweth not the condemnation of Ualdenses the heretics, done and past so many years ago: so famous, so public, followed upon so great labours, expenses, and travail of the faithful, and sealed with so many deaths of these Infidels, so solemnly being condemned and openly punished. Whereby we may see persecution to be no new thing in the Church of Christ, when Antichrist so long before ⟨p. 233⟩(even 300. years) began to rage against these Ualdē ses. In Bohemia likewise after that,1 the same called by the name of Taborites (as Siluius recordeth) suffered no little trouble. But never persecution was stirred up against them, or any other people more terrible, then was in these latter years in France by the French king, an. 1545. which lamentable story is described in Sleidan: and hereafter in the process of this book, as we come to the order of years, shall be set forth (by the grace of Christ) more at large.2 In the which persecution is declared in one town Cabriera to be slain by the Captain of Satan (Minerius) eight hundred persons at once, without respect of women or children of any age: Of whom 40. women (and most of them great with child, thrust into a barn and the windows kept with pikes, and so fire set to them) were all consumed. Besides in a cave not far from the town Mussium, to the number of xxv. persons, with smoke and fire were the same time destroyed: At Merindolum, the same tyrant (seeing all the rest were fled away,