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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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Amongest other that suffered under Antoninus, 1mention was made also of Justinus, who as it is said before, exhibited two Apologies, concerning the defence of christian doctrine, the one to the Senate of Rome, and the other to Antoninus Pius the Emperor, concerning whose suffering, and the causes thereof is partly before declared: this Justine was borne in Neapoli, in the country of Palestine, whose father was Priscus Bachius, as he himself doth testify. By whom in his youth he was set to school to learn,2 wherein process of time he became a famous and worthy Philosopher, o• whose excellency many learned & notable men do record, For first, he being altogether inflamed and ravished with desire of knowledge, would in no wise be satisfied in his mind, before he had gotten instructors singularly seen in all kind of Philosophy, whereupon he writeth of him self in the beginning of his Dialogue Cum Tripone, thus declaring,3 that in the beginning he being desirous of that sect and society, applied himself to be the scholar to a certain Stoic, & remaining with him a time, when he nothing profited in divine knowledge (whereof the Stoic had no skill, and affirmed the knowledge thereof not to be necessary) he forsook him, and went to another of the sect of the Peripatetic, a sharp witted man, as he thought with whom after he had been a while, he demanded of him a ⟨p. 49⟩stipend• for his teaching, for the better confirmation of their familiarity. Whereupon Justine accounting him as no Philosopher left him,4 & departed. And yet not satisfied in mind but desirous to hear of further learning in Philosophy. adjoined himself to one that professed the Pithagorian sect, a man of great fame, and one who made no small account of himself. Who after he had followed a time, his master, demanded of him whether he had any sight in Music, Astronomy, and Geometry, without the sight of which science, he said he could not be apt to receive the knowledge of virtue and felicity, unless before he had used to apply his mind from sensible matters to the contemplation of things intelligible. And speaking much in the commendation of these sciences, how profitable and necessary they were: