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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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The first caution.
First, that we through the misunderstanding of the Scriptures, do not take the law for the Gospel, 1nor the Gospel for the law: but skilfully discern and distinct the voice of the one, from the voice of the other. Many there be, which reading the book of the new Testament, do take and understand whatsoever they see contained in the said book, to be only and merely the voice of the gospel. And contrariwise, whatsoever is contained in the con pass of the old Testament, that is, within the law, stories, Psalms and Prophets, to be only and merely the word and voice of the law: wherein many are deceived. For the preaching of the law & of the Gospel, are mixed together in both the Testaments, as well the old as the new. Neither is the order of these two doctrines to be distincted by books and leaves, but by the diversity of Gods spirit speaking unto us. 2For sometimes in the old Testament, God doth comfort as he comforted Adam with the voice of the Gospel. Sometimes also in the new Testament he doth threaten and terrify, as when Christ threatened the Pharisees. In some places again, Moses and the Prophets play the Evangelists: In so much that Hierome doubteth whether he should call Isaiah a Prophet or an Evangelist. In some places likewise Christ and the Apostles supply the part of Moses: 3And as Christ himself until his death was under the law (which law he came not to break but to fulfil) so his Sermons made to the Jews, for the most part run all upon the perfect doctrine and works of the law, showing and teaching what we ought to do by the right law of Justice, and what danger ensueth in not performing the same. Al which places though they be contained in the book of the new Testament,