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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.
1. First they err falsely in the number. For where the institution of Christ ordaineth but two, they (contrary to the fourth principle above prefixed) have added to the prescription of the Lords word, fine other Sacraments.
1. First they erre falsely in the number. For where the institution of Christ ordeineth but two, they (contrary to the fourth principle aboue prefixed) haue added to the prescription of the Lords worde, fine other Sacraments.
2. Secondly, in the cause final they err. For where the word hath ordained those Sacraments to excite our faith, and to give us admonitions of spiritual things: they contrariwise do teach that the Sacraments do not only stir up faith, but also that they avail and are effectual without faith, Ex opere operato, sine bono motu utentis &c. as is to be found in Thom. Aquine, Scotus, Catharinus, and other moe.
2. Secondly, in the cause finall they erre. For where the word hath ordeined those Sacraments to excite our faith, and to giue vs admonitions of spiritual things: they contrariwise doe teach that the Sacramentes doe not onely stirre vp faith, but also that they auayle and are effectuall without faith, Ex opere operato, sine bono motu vtentis &c. as is to be founde in Thom. Aquine, Scotus, Catharinus, and other moe.