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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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So may the devils well call the Lord, and tremble before his face. The Martyr. The devils call the Lord in such sort as the pharisees did, when they brought the adulteress before him, and called him Master: yet neither attended they to his doctrine, nor intended to be his disciples: Whose case I trust is nothing like to ours, which know and confess (as we speak) him to be the true Lord with all our hart, so as true Christians ought to do. The Doctor. I know you hold well the church to be, where the word is truly preached,1 and the Sacraments sincerely ministered, according as they are left of Christ and his Apostles. The Martyr. That do I believe, and in that will I live and dye. The Doctor. Do not you believe that whosoever is without that church, cannot obtain remission of his sins? The Martyr. Who soever doth separate himself from that church to make either sect, part, or division, cannot obtain as you say. The Doctor. Now let us consider two churches, the one wherein the word is rightly preached and Sacraments administered accordingly as they be left unto us:2 The other wherein the word & Sacraments be used contrarily. Which of these two ought we to believe? The Martyr. The first, The Doctor. Well said. Next is now to speak of the gifts given to the said Church: as the power of the keys, confession for remission of sins, after we be confessed to a Priest. Also we must believe the vij. Sacraments in the same Church, truly administered, as they be here in the Churches of Paris, where the Sacrament of the altar is ministered, and the Gospel truly preached. The Martyr. Sir, now you begin to halt. As for my part, I do not receive in the Church, moe then 2. Sacraments which be instituted in the same, for the whole commonalty of Christians.3 And as concerning the power of the keys and your confession. I believe, that for remission of our sins, we ought to go to none other, but only to God▪ as we read. 1. John. 1.4 If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just: to pardon our offences, and he will purge us from all our iniquities. &c. Also in the Prophet David,