A67926:1971
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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To the fifteenth Article he said, he would wish that the Gospels and Epistles should be read in English.1 For I would (saith Paul) rather have five words, &c. That the Church might be edified, &c. And Chrysostom exhorteth his hearers to look upon books,2 that they might the better commit unto memory those things which they had heard.3 And S. Bede did translate S. Johns Gospel into English.
To the fifteenth Article he sayde, he woulde wishe that the Gospelles and Epistles should be read in Englishe.1 For I woulde (sayth Paule) rather haue fiue wordes, &c. That the Church might be edified, &c. And Chrisostome exhorteth his hearers to looke vpon bookes,2 that they might the better commit vnto memory those thynges which they had heard.3 And S. Bede did translate S. Iohns Gospell into English.
- 1Scripture to be in English.Scripture to be in Englishe.
- 21. Cor. 14.
- 3S. Johns Gospel tran̄slated into English by Bede.S. Iohns Gospel tran̄slated into Englishe by Bede.