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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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And if he could make it to appear unto them by good & sufficient information, that they had holden any errors & heresies,1 or should be convict thereupon by the word of God, they would willingly abjure: or if in their confession there were any word contrary to the Scriptures, they would revoke the same. Contrariwise, if it were not made manifest unto them, that they had holden any heresies, but that they had always lived according to the doctrine of the Gospel, and that their confession was grounded upon the same: they ought by no means, to move or constrain them, to abjure any errors which they held not, & that it were plainly against all equity and justice so to do.
And if he could make it to appeare vnto them by good & sufficiēt information, that they had holdē any errours & heresies,1 or should be conuict therupon by the word of God, they would willingly abiure: or if in their confession there were any word contrary to the Scriptures, they would reuoke the same. Contrarywise, if it were not made manifest vnto them, that they had holden any heresies, but that they had alwayes liued accordyng to the doctrine of the Gospell, and that their confession was grounded vpon the same: they ought by no meanes, to moue or constrayne them, to abiure any errours which they held not, & that it were plainly agaynst all equitie and iustice so to do.
- 1The Bishops condemn the Merindolians for heresy, and yet can show no heresies in them by the word of God▪The Bishops condemne the Merindolians for heresie, and yet can shewe no heresies in thē by the word of God▪
Then the Bishop of Cavaillon was marvellously angry & would hear no word spoken of any demonstration to be made by the word of God,