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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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In process of time, as this Galeazius increased in judgement and zeal, in setting forward the wholesome word of Gods grace: as a light shining in darkness, could not so lye hid, but at last, in the year of our Lord. 1551. certain were sent from the forenamed City of Laus Pompeia, to lay hands upon him,1 and brought him to the bishops Palace, where he was kept in hands, having under him but only a pad o• straw. Although his wife sent unto him a good featherbed, with sheets to lye in, yet the Bishops chaplains and officers kept it from him, dividing the pray among themselves. When the time came that he should be examined he was thrice brought before the Commissioners, where he rendered reasons and causes of his faith, answering to their interrogatories, with such evidence of Scriptures, & constancy of mind, that he was an admiration to them that that heard him. Albeit not long after, through the importunate persuasions of his kinsfolks & friends, and other cold Gospellers, laying many considerations before his eyes:2 ⟨p. 937⟩he was brought at length, to assent to certain points of the popes doctrine. But yet the mercy of God, which began with him, so left him not, but brought him again to such repentance, & bewailing of his fact, that he became afterward, according to the example of Peter,3 and S. Cyprian, and other, doublewise more valiant in defence of Christs quarrel: neither did he ever desire any thing more, then occasion to be offered, to recover again by confession, that he had lost before by denial: affirming that he never felt more joy of hart, then at the time of his examinations, where he stood thrice to the constant confession of the truth: and contrary that he never tasted more sorrow in all his life, then when he slipped afterward from the same, by dissimulation: Declaring moreover to his brethren,4 that death was much more sweet unto him, with testimony of the verity then life with the least denial of truth, and loose of a good conscience. Thus Galeazius mourning for his fall in prison, after he heard of his friends, that nothing was yet so far past, but that he might recover himself again, and that his infirmity was not prejudicial, but rather a furtherance to Gods glory, and admonition to himself to stand more strongly hereafter, took thereby exceeding comfort: