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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here for so much as mention is made before, of v. letters or Epistles, which this good man wrote to Cuthbert Tonstall Bishop of London, and by the said Bishop delivered unto the Registers, we thought good to insert certain thereof, such as could come to our hands. The Copy of which letters, as they were written by him in Latin, because they are in the former Edition to be seen and read in the same Latin, wherein he wrote them, it shall suffice in this book to express the same only in English. Concerning the first Epistle, which containeth the whole story of his conversion, and seemeth more effectual in the Latin, then in the English, we have exhibited it in the second Edition, pag. 1141. and therefore have here only made mention of the same briefly. The copy whereof beginneth thus.
Here for so much as mention is made before, of v. letters or Epistles, whiche this good man wrote to Cutbert Tonstall Bishop of London, and by the sayd Byshop deliuered vnto the Registers, we thought good to insert certayne thereof, such as could come to our handes. The Copy of which letters, as they were written by him in Latin, because they are in the former Edition to be seene and read in the same Latine, wherein he wrote them, it shall suffice in this booke to expresse the same onely in Englishe. Concerning the first Epistle, which conteyneth the whole story of his conuersion, and seemeth more effectual in the Latine, then in the Englishe, we haue exhibited it in the second Edition, pag. 1141. and therefore haue here onelye made mention of the same briefely. The copy whereof beginneth thus.
¶Reverendo in Christo patri D. Cutb. Tonstallo, Lond. Episcopo, T. Bilnaeus Salutem in Christo, cum omni subiectione tanto presulidebitam. HOc nomine, pater in Christo obseruande, longe beatiorem me puto, quòd ad tuae Paternitatis examinationem vocari me contigit. Ea enim eruditione es, ea vitae integ•itate (quod omnes ⟨p. 1004⟩fatentur) ut ipsemet non possis (alioqui divinarum in te dotium estimator non admodum magnificus) quoties tibi succurrit, quanta tibi gratis fecerit Deus, in illius laudes non erumpere, ac tecum in cord tacitus exclamare: Fecit mihi magna qui potens est, & sanctum nomen eius. In talem nunc me judicem incidisse gratulor, ac Deo qui moderatur omnia, gratiam pro virili habeo.