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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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But what do I strain my travel any further, to prove Hun a martyr, when as Copes own confession doth import no less, though I said nothing? For if I should take no more but his own very words & say,1 that he was known to be an heretic as Cope doth affirm? what could I say more, seeing he dyed for their heresy, to prove him to dye a Martyr? For to dye an heretic with the Papists, what is it else (to say trueth) but to dye with God a Martyr?
But what do I strayne my trauell any further, to proue Hunne a martyr, whē as Copes own confessiō doth import no lesse, though I said nothing? For if I should take no more but his owne very wordes & say,1 that he was knowne to be an heretique as Cope doth affirme? what could I say more, seing he dyed for theyr heresy, to proue him to dye a Martyr? For to dye an hereticke with the Papistes, what is it els (to say trueth) but to dye with God a Martyr?
- 1Cope Ibid.
But howsoever it pleaseth either Sir Tho. Moore to jest, or Alen Cope to scold out the matter, & to stile Richard Hun for a known and desperate heretic: yet to all true godly disposed men, Hun may well be known to be a godly and virtuous person: no heretic, but faithful and sound, save that only he seemed rather half a papist: at least no full Protestant, for that he resorted daily to mass, and also had his Beads in prison with him,1 after the Catholic manner: albeit he was somewhat inclining (as may appear) toward the Gospel. And if the name of a martyr be thought to good for him, yet I trust master Cope will stand so good master to him, to let him at least to be a martyrs ⟨p. 813⟩