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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
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Moreover, the foresaid Irenaeus in Lib. 3. cap. 3. and Eusebius, Lib. 3. cap 28. and Lib. 4. cap. 14. prosecuting the history of John, declare in these words, saying, that there were certain which heard Policarpus say; that John the disciple of our Lord,1 going into Ephesus to be washed, seeing Corinthus within, he leaped out of the bathe unbathed, because he feared the bathe should have fallen, seeing that Cerinthus an enemy to the truth, was within. Such fear had the Apostles (saith Irenaeus) that they would not communicate a word with them that adulterate the truth.
Moreouer, the foresayd Irenaeus in Lib. 3. cap. 3. and Eusebius, Lib. 3. cap 28. and Lib. 4. cap. 14. prosecuting the historie of Iohn, declare in these wordes, saying, that there were certaine which heard Policarpus say; that Iohn the disciple of our Lord,1 goyng into Ephesus to be washed, seyng Corinthus within, he leaped out of the bathe vnbathed, because he feared the bathe should haue fallen, seing that Cerinthus an enemy to the truth, was within. Such feare had the Apostles (saith Irenaeus) that they would not communicate a word with them that adulterate the truth.
- 1An example of the godly to fly the company of the wicked.An example of the godly to flye the cō pany of the wicked.
And forasmuch as we are here in hand with the story of John the blessed Evangelist, cometh in matter and occasion, not given by him, but taken of other, of a great doubt and difficulty, such as hath occupied all the Catholic, subtle, illuminate, and seraphical Doctors of the Popes Catholic ⟨p. 48⟩Church, these 500. years. The difficulty is this: that for so much as auricular confession hath been,