A67922:6584
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.
For this precept of the old Testament had an end in the first year of our Lord Jesus Christ, like as the precept of Circumcision. Wherefore well beloved, consider and see, how your bishops seduce you and shut your eyes with things that have no proof. Christ sayeth in the 11. of Luke. Give alms of those things that remain, but he said not, give the tenth of the goods, which ye possess, but give alms. But when they hear the word, they may say as the lawyer said to Christ: Master when thou sayest so, thou givest offence. Luke 11. 1The 16. Article is, that they in many places lend money or goods to have treasure or usury, and they have in cities and towns, yearly payments and perpetual revenues, as great Princes and Lords. Wherein they do against the Gospel, which saith, do not ye possess gold nor silver. And whereas they lend for gain and usury, against that speaketh the Lord, Deu. 24. Lend not to usury to thy brother. &c. Ye honest discrete and well beloved Lords, all the foresaid Articles we will prove against the Pope, and all his priests, with many testimonies of the holy Scripture, which for brevities sake, we have not here mentioned. But note ye chiefly these 4. Articles, for which we strive, and desire to defend them to the death. The first Article is, that all public, and customably mortal sins ought to be forbidden and prohibited to all Priests and lay men, according to the commandment of the holy Scripture. 2The second Article is, that richesse ought to be taken from the Pope and all his Priests, from the highest to the lowest, and they ought to be made poor, as the Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ were: who had nothing of their own, neither possessions in this world, neither worldly power. 3The third Article is, that the word of God ought to be free for every man appointed and ordained thereto, to preach and read in all places, whether they shall come, without resistance of any man or without any inhibition of either spiritual or earthly power openly or manifestly. The fourth article is, that the body of our Lord Jesus Christ ought to be delivered to every christian as our lord hath ordained it,