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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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This is my dearly beloved son in whom I am well pleased, hear him. 1Who also speaking of himself, said it was meet that Christ should suffer and rise again the third day from death and that in his name repentance and remission of sins should be preached unto all people. What other thing is that, than the same which the other Evangelists do write: Go ye into the whole world & preach the Gospel unto every creature: he that believeth and is Baptised, 2shall be saved. What can be more pleasant, sweet, or acceptable unto afflicted consciences being almost in despair, then this most joyful tidings? But here, whether Christ have been a long time heard I know not, for that I have not heard all the preachers of England, and if I heard them, yet till it was within this year or two, I could not sufficiently judge of them, But this I dare be bold to affirm, that as many as I have heard of late preach (I speak even of the most famous) they have preached such repentance, that if I had heard such preachers of repentance in times past, I should utterly have been in despair.3 And to speak of one of these famous men (not uttering his name) after he had sharply inveighed against vice, (wherein he pleased every godly man, for so much as it could not be sufficiently cried out upon) he concluded: behold (said he) thou hast lien rotten in thine own lusts, by the space of these 60. years, even as a beast in his own dung, and wilt thou presume in one year, to go forward toward beaven, and that in thine age, as much as thou wentest backwards from heaven towards hell 60. years? Is not this think you a goodly argument? Is this the preaching of repentance in the name of Jesus?4 or rather to tread down Christ with Antichrists doctrine? for what other thing did he speak in effect, than that Christ dyed in vain for thee? He will not be thy Jesus or saviour, thou must make satisfaction for thy self, or else thou shalt perish eternally. Then doth S. John lye which saith: Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. And in other place:5 His blood hath cleansed us from all our sins And again: He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world. Besides an infinite number of other places. What other thing is this, then that which was spoken by