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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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Book 7 › ¶James Brewster Martyr.Book 7 › ¶Iames Brewster Martyr.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Item, for that he had communication and conference with Roger Heliar and one Walker a Thicker of S. Clements concerning divers such matters of Pilgrimage, offering to Images, worshipping of Saints, and the sacrament of the altar.
Item, for that he had communication and conference wt Roger Heliar and one Walker a Thicker of S. Clements concerning diuers such matters of Pilgrimage, offering to Images, worshipping of Sainctes, and the sacrament of the altar.
1Item, when Thomas Goodred, William Sweating, and he in the fields keeping beasts, were talking together of the sacrament of the Lords body, and like matters, this James Brewster should thus say: Now the Son of the living God help us. Unto whom William Sweating again should answer, Now almighty God so do.
1Item, when Thomas Goodred, William Sweting, and he in the fieldes keeping beastes, were talking together of the sacramente of the Lordes bodye, and like matters, this Iames Brewster shoulde thus say: Nowe the sonne of the liuing God helpe vs. Unto whome William Sweting agayne shoulde aunswere, Nowe almightye God so doe.
- 1A perilous heresie. Ex Regist. Lond.
And thus have you the causes likewise and crimes laid against James Brewster, upon which he with William Sweating was together examined and condemned. Then being asked, as the Romish manner is, whether he had any cause why he should not be adjudged for relapse, he trusting to find favour and grace in submitting himself, said, that he submitted him to the mercy of almighty God, and to the favourable goodness of him his judge. And likewise did William Sweating submit himself, trusting belike that they should find some favour and relief in this humble subjecting themselves unto their goodness.