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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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Good people, I am come hither to dye, and borne I was to live under that condition,1 naturally to dye again, and that ye might testify that I depart out of this present life as a true Christian man in a right belief towards almighty God, I will rehearse unto you in a fast faith, the Articles of my Creed, and then began to rehearse them in order as they be in the common Creed, with oft elevating his eyes and hands to almighty God, and at the Article of Christs incarnation having a little meditation in himself, & coming to the word Crucified, he humbly bowed himself and made great reverence, and then proceeding in the Articles and coming to these words, I believe the Catholic Church, there he paused and spake these words: Good people I must here confess to have offended the Church in preaching once against the prohibition of the same, at a poor Cure belonging to Trinity hall in Cambridge where I was fellow,2 earnestly entreated thereunto by the Curate and other good people of the parish, showing that they had no Sermon there of long time before: & so in my conscience moved, I did make a poor collation unto them, and thereby ran into the disobedience of certain authority in the Church, by whom I was prohibited: howbeit I trust at the general day, charity that moved me to this act, shall bear me out at the judgement seat of God:3 & so he proceeded on, without any manner of words of recantation, or charging any man for procuring him to his death.
Good people, I am come hyther to dye, and borne I was to liue vnder that condition,1 naturally to dye againe, and that ye might testify that I depart out of this present life as a true Christian man in a right beliefe towardes almighty God, I will rehearse vnto you in a fast fayth, the Articles of my Creede, and then began to rehearse them in order as they be in the common Creede, with oft eleuating his eyes and handes to almighty God, and at the Article of Christes incarnatiō hauing a litle meditation in himselfe, & comming to the word Crucified, he humbly bowed himselfe and made great reuerence, and then proceeding in the Articles and comming to these wordes, I beleue the Catholicke Church, there he paused and spake these wordes: Good people I must here confesse to haue offended the Church in preaching once agaynst the prohibition of the same, at a poore Cure belonging to Trinity hall in Cambrige where I was felow,