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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.
That the Romish church is the fig tree which the Lord Christ hath accused,1 because it hath brought forth no fruit of the true belief.
That the Romish church is the fig tree which the Lord Christ hath accussed,1 because it hath brought forth no fruit of the true beliefe.
- 1The Romi•• church ap•• resembled to the cu• sed fig•uce.
That such as wear cowls, or be anointed or shorne are the lanceknightes and soldiers of Lucifer: & that they all, because their lamps are not burning, shall be shut out, when as the Lord Christ shall come.
That such as weare coules, or be annointed or shorne are the lanceknightes and souldiors of Lucifer: & that they all, because theyr lamps are not burning, shall be shut out, when as the Lord Christ shall come.
Upon which articles he being attached at Cant. under the Archb. Henry Chichesley in the year of our Lord 1424. there for a certain space stoutly and manly witnessed the truth which he had preached: but like as there he lost his courage and strength, so afterward he became again much more stouter and stronger in Jesus Christ and confessed his own error & offence. For after this he going into Norfolk with his said wife Joan, & there occupying himself busily in teaching & converting the people unto the true doctrine of Christ, at the last by means of the kings letters sent down for that intent and purpose, he was apprehended & taken & brought before Will. bishop of Norwich, by whom he was convict & condemned of 30. articles & there was burned in Norwich, in the month of September. an. 1424.