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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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These bills being found, there was no small add, and no little search made for the inquiry of the heretic that should set up these bills:1 and the Major & his officers were not so busy to make searches to find this heretic, but the bishop and all his doctors were as hot as coals, & enkindled as though they had been stung with a sort of wasps. Wherefore to keep the people in their former blindness, order was taken that the doctors should in hast up to the pulpit every day, and confute this heresy. Nevertheless this Thom. Benet ⟨p. 1038⟩keeping his own doings in secret, went the sunday following to the cathedral church to the Sermon, and by chance sate down by 2. men, which were the busiest in all the city, in seeking & searching for this heretic, and they beholding this Benet, said the one to the other. Surely this fellow by all likelihood is the heretic that hath set up the bills, and it is good to examine him.2 Nevertheless when they had well beheld him, and saw the quiet and sober behaviour of the man, his attentiveness to the preacher, his godliness in the Church, being always occupied in his Book, which was a Testament in the Latin tongue, were astonied and had no power to speak unto him,3 but departed & left him reading in his book. As touching this point of Benets behaviour in the Church, I find the reports of some other a little to vary, and yet not much contrary one to the other. For in receiving the letters and writings of a certain minister, which at the same time was present at the doing hereof in Exeter, thus I find moreover added concerning the behaviour of this Thomas Benet in the Church.
These bils being found, there was no smal adde, and no litle search made for the inquiry of the heretike that should set vp these bils:1 and the Maior & his officers were not so busie to make searches to find this heretike, but the bishop and all his doctors were as hote as coales, & enkindled as though they had bene stong wt a sort of waspes. Wherefore to kepe ye people in their former blindnes, order was taken that the doctors should in hast vp to the pulpit euery day, and confute this heresie. Neuerthelesse this Thom. Benet