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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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Now to verify that, which Justine here of him self doth prophesy, that Crescens would and did procure his death, ⟨p. 45⟩Tacianus (a man brought up of a child in the institutions of the Gentiles,1 and obtained in the same not a little fame, and which also left behind him many good monuments and Commentaries) writeth in his book against the Gentiles in this sort:2 And Justine saith he, that most excellent learned man, full well spake and uttered his mind, that the afore recited men were like unto thieves or liars by the high way side. And in the said book speaking afterward of certain Philosophers, the said Tacianus inferreth thus: Crescens therefore (saith he) when he came first into that great City, passed all other in the vicious love of children, and was very much given to covetousness, and where he taught that men ought not to regard death, he himself doth fear death, that he did all his endeavour to oppress Justine with death, as with the most greatest evil that was, and all because that Justine speaking trueth, reproved the Philosophers to be men only for the belly and deceivers,3 and this was the cause of Justines Martyrdom. Hierome in his Ecclesiastical Catalogue thus writeth: Justine when in the City of Rome he had his disputations, and had reproved Crescens the Cynic, for a great blasphemer of the Christians: for a belly god and a man fearing death, and also a follower of lust and lechery:4 at the last by his endeavour and conspiracy was accused to be a Christian, and for Christ shed his blood in the year of our Lord. 154. under Marcus Antonius, as the Chronicles do witness, Abb Ursperg: and Eusebius in his Chronicle in the xiii. year of the Emperor Antoninus.
Now to verifie that, which Iustine here of him selfe doth prophecie, that Crescens would and did procure his death, ⟨p. 45⟩Tacianus (a man brought vp of a childe in the institutions of the Gentiles,