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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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Id est, Hostia pro peccato,1 ut nos efficeremur justicia Dei per illum. 2. Cor. 5. Qui factus est pro nobis maledictum, ut nos a maledicto legis redimeret.2 Et qui non venit ad vocandum justos, sed peccatores ad penitentiam: justos inquam,3 qui se sanos putant & falsò putant (Omnes enim peccaverunt & egent gloria Dei, qua gratis remittit credentibus peccata per redemptionem quae est in Christo Jesu▪ Rom 3.) quia omne genus humanum sauciatum gravissime fuerat in eo, qui inter Hierusalem & Jericho incidit in latrones.4 Ideo pro virili doceo, ut omnes primum peccata sua agnoscant ac damnent, deinde esuriant ac sitiant justitiam illam,5 de qua Paulus loquitur. Rom. 3. Justitia Dei per fidem Jesu Christi in omnes & super omnes qui credunt in eum. Non est enim distinctio: omnes enim peccaverunt & egent gloria Dei, justificantur autem gratis per gratiam ipsius, per redemptionē que est in Christo Jesu. Quā qui esuriunt ac sitiunt, haud dubie sic aliquando saturabuntur, quòd neque esurient neque sitient in eternum. Sed quoniam hanc esuriem ac sitim extinguere solet humanae justiciae saturitas, quam parat potissimum opusculorum nostrorum electiciorum fiducia, (qualia sunt peregrinationes, veniarum redemptiones, cereorum oblations, electa à nobis jeiunia, & interdum supersticiosè, denique qualescunque (ut vocant) voluntariae devotiones, contra quae loquitur Scriptura Dei. Deut. 4.12. non facies quod tibi rectum videtur, sed quod ego praecipio tibi,6 hoc tantum facito, nec addens nec minuens: ideo inquam huiusmodi opusculorum mentionem nonnunquam facio: non ea (Deum testor) unquam damnans, sed eorum abusum reprehendens, legitimumque usum paruulis manifestum faciens, hortans, ne sic his adhereant, ut his saturati (quod plaerique faciunt) Christum fastidiant. In quo feliciter valeat Paternitas tua. Et haec omnium summa. Si indixeris mihi ut singula dilatem, non recusabo, modo tempus mihi concesseris. Nam statim hoc facere non est harum, quoad corpus, virium: paratus semper, sicubi lapsus fuero, meliora doceri. Totus tuus T. Bilnaeus. The same in English. *To the reverent father in Christ, Cuthbert Bishop of London, Thomas Bilney wisheth health in Christ, with all submission due unto such a Prelate.