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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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Yea, and what do they more? Truly nothing,1 but apply themselves by all the sleights they may, to have to do with every mans wife, every mans daughter, and every mans maid, that cuckoldry and baudry should reign over all, among your subjects, that no man should know his own child. that their bastards might inherit the possessions of every man, to put the right begotten children clear beside their inheritance, in subversion of all estates and godly order. These be they that by their abstaining from Marriage, do let the generation of the people, whereby all the Realm at length, if it should be continued, shall be made desert and inhabitable.
Yea, and what do they more? Truly nothing,1 but apply themselues by all the sleights they may, to haue to do with euery mans wife, euery mans daughter, and euery mans mayde, that cukoldry and baudry should reigne ouer al, among your subiectes, that no man should know his owne childe. that theyr bastards might inherite the possessions of euery man, to put the right begotten children cleare beside their inheritance, in subuersion of all estates and godly order. These be they that by their absteining from Mariage, do let the generation of the people, whereby all the Realme at length, if it should be continued, shalbe made desert and inhabitable.
- 1If this be not true in the whole, I would the greatest part were not such.If this be not true in the whole, I would the greatest part were not suche.
These be they that have made an 100000. idle Whores in your realm,1 which would have gotten their living honestly, in the sweat of their faces, had not their superfluous riches illected them to unclean lust and idleness. These be they that corrupt the whole generation of mankind in your Realm, that catch the pocks of one woman, and bear them to another, that be burnt with one woman, & bear it to another, that catch the leprosy of one woman, & bear it to another. Yea some one of them shall boast among his fellows, that he hath meddled with an C. women, These be they, that when they have once drawn mens wives to such incontinency, spend away their husbands goods, make the women to run away from their husbands, yea, run away themselves both with wife and goods, bringing both man, wife and children, to idleness, theft and beggary. Yea, who is able to number the great and broad bottomless Ocean Sea, full of evils, that this mischievous and sinful generation may lawfully bring upon us unpunished.