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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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After viij. days the Bishop sent for this Doctor, to understand how he might order himself to make those heresies appear, which were in the said confession.1 Whereunto the Doctor answered, that he was never so much abashed: for when he had beholden the Articles of the confession, and the authorities of the Scripture that there were alleged for the confirmation thereof, he had found that those Articles were wholly agreeable and according to the holy Scriptures, and that he had not learned so much in the Scriptures all the days of his life, as he had in those viij. days, in looking upon those Articles and the authorities therein alleged.
After viij. dayes the Byshop sent for this Doctour, to vnderstand how he might order himself to make those heresies appeare, which were in the sayd confession.1 Whereunto the Doctour aunswered, that he was neuer so much abashed: for when he had beholden the Articles of the confessiō, and the authorities of the Scripture that there were alledged for the confirmation thereof, hee had founde that those Articles were wholy agreeable and accordyng to the holy Scriptures, and that hee had not learned so much in the Scriptures all the dayes of his lyfe, as he had in those viij. dayes, in lookyng vpon those Articles and the authorities therein alledged.
- 1The articles of the Merindolians approved by the Doctor.The articles of the Merindoliās approued by the Doctor.
Shortly after, the Bysh. of Cavaillon came unto Merindoll, & calling before him the children both great & small, gave them money, & commanded them with fair words, to learne the Pater noster & the Creede in Latin.1 The most part of them answered that they knew the Pater noster, & the Creede already in Latin, but they could make no reason of that which they spake, but only in the vulgar tongue. The Bysh. answered, that it was not necessary they should be so cunning, but that it was sufficient that they knew it in Latin, & that it was not requisite for their salvation, to understand or to expound the Articles of their faith: for there were many Bishops, Curates, yea & Doctors of Divinity, whom it would trouble to expound the Pater noster,