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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.
Imo si quis requirere velit, ac in caulas Christi, unitatem dico fidei, errabundos reduc•re, mox insurgunt nomine Pastores, sed revera lupi, qui non aliud de grege, quàm lac, lanam, pellem, quaerunt, animas cum suas, tum gregis permittentes diabolo, Insurgunt inquam,1 ac Demetrij instar exclamant: Hic hereticus ubiqui suadet avertitque multam turbam, dicens, quod non sunt dij qui manibus fiunt. Hi sunt, hi (pater colende) sunt, qui sub pretextu persequendi Hereticos, ventris sui negotium agunt, inimici crucis Christi. Qui quiduis potius ferre possunt, quàm purā Christi pro peccatis nostris crucifixi, annunciationem. Hi funt quibus Christus aeternam minatur damnationē, cum ait: Vae vobis Scribae & Pharisei,2 Hypocritae, qui clauditis regnum coelorum ante homines: vos enim nō intratis, nec introeuntes sinitis intrate. Hi sunt qui, cum ipse aliunde ascenderunt, alios intrare non sinunt. Quod patet, quia si quis per me, inquit Christus, introierit, saluabitur, & ingredietur & egredietur, & pascua inueniet, & hi non inueniunt pascua (nunquam enim docent) & alios post see trahunt, ut non per Christum, qui solus est ostium per quod ad patrem peruenitur, sed aliunde per opuscula, quae ovibus, tacito nonnunquam Christo,3 suadent, proponunt & iniungunt, ad suum potius quaestum, quàm animarum salutem spectantes: hoc deteriores, quàm illi qui super Christum fundamentum edificant, lignum, foenum, stipulam. Isti fatentur se Christum scire, sed factis negant. Denique hi sunt medici illi,4 in quos mulier illa annis duodecim sanguinis profluvio vexata, omnia sua consumpserat, nec adiumenti quicquam senserat, sed deterius se habebat, donec vix tandem ad Christum venerat: quae simulatque fimbriam vestimenti eius in fide tetigerat,5 sic sanabatur, ut statim in corpore idipsum sentiret. O mutationem dexterae excelsi: quam & ego miser peccator non semel sensu, qui tamen antea quàm ad Christum venire potui, sic omnia mea insumpseram in ignaros medicos, indoctos confessionum auditors, ut parum mihi virium (alioqui natura imbecilli) reliquum fuerit, parum pecuniae, ingenij item parum. Indicebant enim mihi jeiunia, vigilias, indulgentiarum, ac missarum emptiones, in quibus omnibus (ut nunc intelligo) sua potius quaerebant, quàm salutem animae meae languentis. Sed tandem de Jesu audiebam, nimirum tum, cum novum Testamentum primum ab Erasmo aederetur.