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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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And therefore with all my whole power I teach that all men should first acknowledge their sins and condemn them,1 and afterward hunger and thirst for that righteousness, whereof Saint Paul speaketh: The righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ, is upon all them which Believe in him, 2for there is no difference all have sinned, and lack the glory of God, and are justified freely thorough his grace, by the redemption which is in Jesus Christ. The which, who so ever doth hunger or thirst for, without doubt, they shall at the length so be satisfied, that they shall not hunger & thirst for ever But forsomuch as this hunger and thirst was wont to be quenched with the fullness of mans righteousness,3 which is wrought through the faith of our own elect and chosen works, as pilgrimages, buying of pardons, offering of candles, elect and chosen fasts, and oftentimes superstitious, & finally all kind of voluntary devotions (as they call them) against the which gods word speaketh plainly in the fourth of Deut. and in the 12. saying: Thou shalt not do that which seemeth good unto thy self, but that which I command thee for to do, that do thou neither adding to, neither diminishing any thing from it: therefore I say oftentimes I have spoken of those works, not condemning them (as God I take to my witness) but reproving their abuse, making the law full use of them manifest, even unto children, exhorting all men not so to cleave unto them, that they being satisfied therewith, should loath or wax weary of Christ, as many do. In whom I bid your Fatherhood most prosperously well to fare. And this is the whole some, If you will appoint me to dilate more at large the things here touched, I will not refuse to do it, so that you will grant me time: For to do it out of hand, I am not able for the weakness of my body, being ready always if I have erred in any thing, to be better instructed.
And therfore with all my whole power I teach that all men should first acknowledge theyr sinnes and condemne them,1 and afterward hunger and thirst for that righteousnesse, wherof Saint Paul speaketh: The righteousnes of God by faith in Iesus Christ, is vpon all them which Beleue in him,