A67926:1105
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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here is not to be pretermitted, how the said Franciscus being a man of notable learning as ever was any in Spain being in the Emperors Court at Brussels, offered unto the Emperor Charles the fifth the new Testament of Christ translated into Spanish. For the which he was cast into Prison, where he remained in sorrowful captivity and calamity, the space of fifteen ⟨p. 935⟩months, looking for nothing more, then present death. At last through the marvellous providence of almighty God, the first day of February. an. 1545. at viij. of the clock after supper, he found the doors of the prison standing open, and he secretly was answered in his mind, to take the occasion offered, and to shift for himself: and so he issuing out of the prison without any hasty pace, but going as leisurely as he could, escaped from thence and went straight to Germany. Pope Julius the third. | 1Faninus. At Ferraria. An. 1550. | Faninus, borne in Faventia, a town in Italy through the reading of godly books translated into the Italian tongue (having no perfect skill in the Latin) was converted from great blindness to the wholesome knowledge of Christ, and of his word: Wherein he took such a sweetness and so grew up in the meditation of the same that he was able in short time to instruct other. Neither was there any diligence lacking in him to communicate, that abroad which he had received of the Lord: being so in his mind persuaded, that a man receiving by the spirit of God the knowledge and illumination of his verity, ought in no case to hide the same in silence, as a candle under a bushel: And therefore being occupied diligently in that behalf, albeit he used not publicly to preach, but by private conference to teach, he was at length by the popes clients espied, apprehended and committed to prison. Albeit he remained not long in the prison: For by the earnest persuasions and prayers of his wife,2 his children, and other friends, he was so over come, that he gave over, and so was dismissed shortly out of prison. After this, it was not long, but he fell into horrible perturbation of mind: Insomuch that unless the great mercy of God had kept him up, he had fallen in utter desperation, for slipping from the trueth, and preferring the love of his friends and kindred, before the service of Jesus Christ, whom he so earnestly before had professed.