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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. 2, part 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. 2, part 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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And what then judge you of them which follow the religion of the Church of Rome, think you them to be Christians? The Martyr. No, for that church is not governed with the spirit of God, but rather fighteth against the same. Inquisitor. Do you then esteem all them which separate them selves from the Church of Rome to be Christians? The Martyr. 1I have not to answer for others, but only for my self, Every man (saith S. Paul) shall bear his own burden, And thus the advocate, when he had asked him whether he would put his hand to that he had said, and had obtained the same, departed to dinner. At the next examination was brought unto him a Franciscan fryer, who first entering with him touching the words that he spake in his Inn, asked him why that grace might not be said in Latin? Because (said he) by the word of God, Christians are commanded to pray with hart and with spirit, and with that tongue which is most understanded, and serveth best to the edification of the hearers. Then the Fryer bringing forth his Benedicite, Agimus tibi gratias, &c. Laus Deo, pax vivis, requies defunctis, &c. began thus to reason. The Fryer. God understandeth all tongues: and the church of Rome hath prescribed this form of praying,2 receiving the same from the ancient church and the fathers, which used then to pray in Latin. And if any tongue be to be observed in prayer, one more then an other, why is it not as good to pray in the Latin tongue, as to pray in the French? The Martyr. My meaning is not to exclude any kind of language from prayer, whether it be in the Latin Greek Hebrew, or any other, so that the same be understanded, and may edify the hearers. The Fryer. When Christ entered the City of Jerusalem, the people cried, lauding him with Hosanna filio David, and yet understood they not what they said, as Hierome writeth. The Martyr. It may be, that Hierome so writeth, how they understood not the prophetical meaning, or the accomplishment of these words upon Christs coming: but that they understood not the phrase of that speech or language which they spake, speaking in their own language. Hierome doth not deny. Then the Fryer declaring that he was no fit parson to expound the Scriptures, being in the Latin tongue, inferred the authorities of Counsels and doctors, & testimonies of men, which seemed to move the officer not a little:
And what then iudge you of them which follow the religion of the Church of Rome, think you them to be Christians? The Martyr. No, for that churche is not gouerned with ye spirite of God, but rather fighteth agaynst the same. Inquisitor. Do you then esteme all them which seperate them selues from the Churche of Rome to be Christians? The Martyr.