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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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1The like evidence we may also take by the verdict of the Bishop himself, that burned him, whose words were these. After he had burned him, and then heard tell of Doct. Shaxton: Christs mother, said he (that was his oath) I fear I have burnt Abel, & let Cain go, &c. As who would say: I had thought before, that I had punished Cain, and let Abel go: but now I fear I have burnt Abel, and let Cain escape. Whereby it is plain to understand what was the Bishops judgement of Bilney, before his burning: that is, that he was a Cain and the other an Abel. But after the burning of Bilney, the Bishop hearing now of Shaxton, turneth his judgement, and correcteth himself swearing now the contrary: that is, least he had burned Abel, and let Cain go.
1The like euidence we may also take by the verdicte of the Bishop himselfe, that burned him, whose words were these. After he had burned him, and thē heard tell of Doct. Shaxton: Christes mother, sayd he (that was his othe) I feare I haue burnt Abell, & let Cain go, &c. As who would say: I had thought before, that I had punished Cain, and let Abell goe: but now I feare I haue burnt Abell, and let Cain escape. Wherby it is playn to vnderstand what was the Byshops iudgement of Bilney, before his burning: that is, that he was a Cain and the other an Abell. But after the burning of Bilney, the Bishop hearing nowe of Shaxton, turneth hys iudgement, and correcteth himselfe swearing nowe the contrary: that is, least hee had burned Abell, and let Cayn go.
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