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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 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⟩fellow. But what now if I go further with Master Cope, & name Richard Hun not only •or a martyr, but also commend him for a double martyr? Certes as I suppose, in so saying I should affirm nothing less than trueth, nor any thing more then truly may be said, and justly proved. But to give and grant this confession unto the adversary, which notwithstanding might be easily proved: let us see now the proofs of master Cope, how he argueth that Rich. Hun is no martyr: because saith he, true men being killed in hie ways by thieves & murderers, are not therefore to be counted martyrs. &c. And was there nothing else in the cause of Hun, but as is in true men killed by thieves & murderers? They that are killed by thieves and murderers, are killed for some pray, or money about them. And what pray or profit was in the death of Hun, let us see, to redound to them which oppressed him? If it were the mortuary, or the bearing cloth, that was a small thing, and not worthy his death. If it were the Premunire, the danger thereof pertained to the Priest, and not to them. If they feared least the example thereof once begun, should afterward redound to the prejudice of the whole church, then was the cause of his death not private, but public, tending to the whole Church and Clergy of Rome: and so is his death not altogether like to the death of them, which for private respects are killed of thieves and murderers.
But howsoeuer it pleaseth either Syr Tho. Moore to iest, or Alen Cope to skowlde out the matter, & to stile Richard Hunne for a knowne and desperate heretique: yet to all true godly disposed mē, Hunne may well be known to be a godly and vertuous person: no heretique, but faythful and sound, saue that onely he semed rather half a papist: at least no full Protestant, for that he resorted dayly to masse, and also had his Beades in prison with him,