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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
To the reader: Ad doctum Lectorem Joh. Foxus.To the reader: Ad doctum Lectorem Ioh. Foxus.
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.
Atque de certitudine veritatésque historiae haec hactenus: quae utinam ne tam vera quidem certaque esset, quàm isti videri volunt, at falsâ potius, consimilísque huic quam dicunt, Aureae ipsorum Legendae, aut Vitis patrum, aut Festival•, aut Dormi secure, caeterísque Papisticis istis [Greek or Hebrew] foret. Nunc verò martyrum horum non a nobis ficta, sed inflicta à vobis supplicia, atroxque caedes veriorem hanc comprobant historiam, plurésque suae veritatis testes habent quàm vellemus ipsi qui historiam scripsimus. Venio jam ad alteram criminationis partem, quae de Calendario fortassis obijcietur. Audio enim & hic mihi obstrepere non tacitas modò sententias, sed apertas papistarum quorum dam voces, quibus iniquè a me factum videbitur, quòd antiquatis atque ex Calendario explosis veteris ecclesiae Divis, Martyribus, Confessoribus, Virginibúsque, novos eorum loco Martyres at Confessors infultiam. Primùm nulli ego veterum Divorum hoc facto praeiudicatum velim. Neque verò ideò inter Divos a me referuntur isti, quòd inseruntur in Calendarium. Hanc ego apotheosin mihi nunque sumpsi, quam sibi tam confidenter sumpsit Gregorius nonus. Porro neque eò spectat hoc Calendarium, ut novam aliquam festorum dierum legem praescribam ecclesiae, Tum multò minus cultum sancti alicuius instituo. Festorum dierum jam plus satis erat in mundo. Utinam dominicum solum sabbatum dignè, atque ut par est, transigeremus. Habeant per me suum papistae Calendarium. Habeat & ecclesia suos sanctos, tum recentes tum veteranos, modò probatos, modò interim idē ne colantur, modò quàm sint vetusti, tàm verè etiam sancti sint.
Atque de certitudine veritatésque historiae haec hactenus: quae vtinam ne tam vera quidem certaque esset, quàm isti videri volunt, at falsâ potius, consimilísque huic quam dicunt, Aureae ipsorum Legendae, aut Vitis patrum, aut Festiual•, aut Dormi secure, caeterísque Papisticis istis 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 foret. Nunc verò martyrum horum non a nobis ficta, sed inflicta à vobis supplicia, atroxque caedes veriorem hanc comprobant historiam, plurésque suae veritatis testes habent quàm vellemus ipsi qui historiam scripsimus. Venio iam ad alteram criminationis partem, quae de Calendario fortassis obijcietur. Audio enim & hic mihi obstrepere non tacitas modò sententias, sed apertas papistarum quorū dam voces, quibus iniquè a me factum videbitur, quòd antiquatis atque ex Calendario explosis veteris ecclesiae Diuis, Martyribus, Confessoribus, Virginibúsque, nouos eorum loco Martyres at Confessores infultiam. Primùm nulli ego veterum Diuorum hoc facto praeiudicatum velim. Neque verò ideò inter Diuos a me referuntur isti, quòd inseruntur in Calendarium. Hanc ego apotheosin mihi nunque sumpsi, quam sibi tam confidenter sumpsit Gregorius nonus. Porro neque eò spectat hoc Calendarium, vt nouam aliquam festorum dierum legem praescribam ecclesiae, Tum multò minus cultum sancti alicuius instituo. Festorum dierum iam plus satis erat in mundo. Vtinam dominicum solum sabbatum dignè, atque vt par est, transigeremus. Habeant per me suum papistae Calendarium. Habeat & ecclesia suos sanctos, tum recētes tum veteranos, modò probatos, modò interim idē ne colantur, modò quàm sint vetusti, tàm verè etiam sancti sint.