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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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As touching the burying of my body it availeth me not whatsoever be done thereto,1 for S. Austen sayth De cura agenda pro mortuis, that the funeral pomps are rather the solace of them that live, then the wealth and comfort of them that are dead, and therefore I remit it only to the discretion of mine executors.
As touching the burying of my body it auayleth me not whatsoeuer be done thereto,1 for S. Austen sayth De cura agenda pro mortuis, that the funerall pompes are rather the solace of them that liue, then the wealth and comfort of them that are dead, and therefore I remitte it onely to the discretion of mine executors.
- 1Funeral pomps serve only for the living, and give no help for the dead.Funerall pompes serue onely for the liuing, and geue no helpe for the dead.
And touching the distribution of my temporal goods, my purpose is, by the grace of God, to bestow them to be accepted as the fruits of faith,1 so that I do not suppose that my merit shall be by the good bestowing of them, but my merit is the faith of Jesus Christ only, by whom such works are good according to the words of our Lord: I was hungry and thou gavest me to eat, &c. And it followeth: that ye have done to the least of my brethren, ye have done it to me, &c. And ever we should consider that true saying: that a good work maketh not a good man, but a good man maketh a good work: for faith maketh the man both good and righteous: for a righteous man liveth by faith: and whatsoever springeth not of faith is sin, 2&c.