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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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for he only is the mediator between God and man. And so was he also hanged commending his soul to God, and afterward laid in the fire and burned. The people having divers judgements upon him, some said he dyed an heretic, some said he was a good man. Ex Henr. Pantal. lib. 19. an. 1543. | Two monks of the house of S. Austen in Rome. At Rome. Ann. 1554. | Furthermore, in the same City of Rome,1 and about the same time, in the Monastery of Saint Austen, were found two Monks in their Cells with their tongues and their heads cut of, only for rebuking the immoderate & outrageous excess of the Cardinals, as witnesseth Manlius. Such was the cruelty then of the malignant aduersaryes. Ex Joan. Manl. in dictis Phil. Melanct. ⟨p. 939⟩The Senate of Milan. | Franciscus Gamba.2 At the City of Comū in the diocese of Milan. Ann. 1554. | Francis Gamba borne in the City of Brixia in Lombardy, after he had received the knowledge of the gospel, went to Geneva, to confer about certain necessary affairs with them that were wise & learned in that Church which was about the time, when the Lords Supper there was administered at Pentecost: Who there also at the same time, did communicate with them. Afterward in his returning home, as he was passing over the Lake of Come, he was taken & brought to Come, and and there committed to ward. During the time of which imprisonment, divers and sundry as well nobles, as others with Doctors also, especially priests and monks, resorted unto him, labouring by all manner of means,3 & most fair promises to reduce him from his opinions: which seemed to some but phantasies, coming of some humours, to some they seemed uncatholicke or heretical. But he constantly disputing with them by the manifest scriptures declared the opinions which he defended, not to be any vain speculations or imaginary phantasies of mans doting brain, but the pure verity of God, and the evident doctrine of Christ Jesus expressed in his word, necessary for all men to believe, & also to maintain unto death: and therefore, for his part, rather then he would be found false to Christ, & his word he was there ready, not to deny, but to stand to Christs Gospel, to the effusion of his blood. Thus when he could in no wise be reclaimed from the doctrine of trueth, letters came from the Senate of Milan, that he should be executed with death.