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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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Touching the testimonial of which Latimer,1 I have noted before, how he in ij. sundry places in his sermons, hath testified of good Bilney, of that blessed Bilney of Saint Bilney, how he dyed patiently against the tyrannical Sea of Rome. &c. And in an other Sermon also how the said Bilney suffered his body to be burned for the gospel sake. &c. Item, in an other place, how the said Bilney suffered death for Gods words sake. vid. pag. 1008.2
Touchyng the testimoniall of whiche Latimer,1 I haue noted before, how he in ij. sundrye places in his sermons, hath testified of good Bilney, of that blessed Bilney of Saint Bilney, how he dyed paciently agaynst the tyrannicall Sea of Rome. &c. And in an other Sermon also how the sayd Bilney suffered hys body to be burned for the gospell sake. &c. Item, in an other place, howe the sayde Bilney suffered death for Gods wordes sake. vid. pag. 1008.2
- 1The testimony of M. Latimer concerning M. Bilney.The testimonie of M. Latimer concerning M. Bilney.
- 2Vid. supra pag. 1008.
I may be thought perhaps of some, to have stayed to long about the discourse of this matter. But the cause that moved, and half constrained me thereunto, was sir Tho. More, sometimes Lord Chancellor of England, & now a great Archpiller of all our English Papists, a man otherwise of a pregnant wit, full of pleasant conceits, also for his learning above the common sort of his estate, esteemed industrious, no less in his studies then well exercised in his pen. Who if he had kept himself in his own shop, and applied the faculty, being a lay man, whereunto he was called, and had not over reached himself to prove maystryes in such matters, wherein he had little skill, less experience, and which pertained not to his profession, he had deserved, not only much more commendation, but also longer life.