A67926:1090
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And yet this our Frances not satisfied in his mind, sought with a greater ardency the fourth time, to speak to the Emperor, but he was repulsed by certain of the Spaniards about the Emperor, who incontinent with out all further hearing or advising the cause, would have thrown him headlong into the river of Danubius, had not the Emperor staid them, & willed him to be judged by the laws of the Empire. By which commandment of the Emperor, he was reserved & detained with other malefactors, in bands, till the Emperor took his voyage into Aphrike.1 Then Frances, with other captives following the Court, after that the Emperor was come into Spain, was there delivered to the Inquisitors: by whom he was laid in a dark prison under the ground. Oft & many times he was called for to examination, where he suffered great injuries and contumelies, but ever remained in his conscience firm and unmoveable. The Articles whereupon he stood, and for which he was condemned were these.2 That life and salvation in the sight of God, c•• meth to no man by his own strength, works, or •• rites: but only by the free mercy of God, in the blood and Sacrifice of his Son our mediator. That the Sacrifice of the Mass, which […] Papists do recount avayleable, Ex opere operato, for remission of sin, both to the quick and dead, is horrible blasphemy. ⟨p. 930⟩That auricular confession, with the numbering up of sins, that Satisfaction, Purgatory, Pardons, invocation of Saints, worshipping of Images, be mere blasphemy against the living God. Item, that the blood of Christ is profaned and injured in the same aforesaid. After the Inquisitors perceived, that by no means he could be reclaimed from his assertions, they proceeded at last, to the sentence, condemning him to be burned for an heretic. Many other malefactors were brought also with him to the place of execution, but all they were pardoned & dismissed:3 he only for the Gospel, being odious to the whole world, was taken & burned. As he was led to the place of suffering, they put upon him a Mitre of paper, painted full of devils, after the spanish guise. Furthermore, as he was brought out of the City gate to be burned, there stood a wooden cross by the way, whereunto Frances was required to do homage. Which he refused, answering that the manner of Christians is not to worship wood,