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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.
Christ suffered for all men. Christ suffered for them whom he committed to Peter.1 Ergo, All that Christ dyed for, were committed to Peter.
Christ suffred for all men. Christ suffered for them whome hee committed to Peter.1 Ergo, All that Christ dyed for, were committed to Peter.
- 1A Popish perilous paralogism▪A Popishe perilous paralogisme▪
If this be the form of his insoluble argument, as it seemeth to be, by the order of his reasoning, & also must needs be, taking that medium, and making that conclusion as he doth, (for else in the first figure, and first mood, the text of Chrysostom will not serve him) then must the form and ⟨p. 15⟩violence of this inexpugnable argument be denied, for that it breaketh the rules of Logic, making his conclusion universal, which in that figure must needs be particular, either affirmative or negative. And so this argument invincible, falleth into one of these two straits, either concluding thus, the form will not serve him, or concluding in another figure, the words of Chrysostom will not answer to his purpose, to prove that all the world was committed to Peter. Which proposition as it is strange in scripture: so neither is it the proposition of Chrysostom. And though it were, yet both without inconvenience might be granted of us, and being granted, serveth his purpose nothing, so long as the proposition is not exceptive, excluding other Apostles. For the words of Chrysostom do not so sound, that the whole world was committed to Peter only and to none other. Likewise then as it may be well affirmed of us, that the world was committed to Peter, so can it not be denied of them, that the world was also committed to John,