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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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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.
*The recantation of Thomas Topley.
All Christen men beware of consenting to Erasmus fables, for by consenting to them, they have caused me to shrink in my faith that I promised to God at my Christening by my witnesses.1 First, as touching these Fables, I read in Colloquium by the instruction of Sir Richard Fox, of certain Pilgrims, which (as the book doth say) made a vow to go to S. James,2 & as they went, one of them dyed & he desired his fellows to salute S. James in his name: and an other dyed homeward, and he desired that they would salute his wife and his children,3 and the third dyed at Florence, & his fellow said he supposed that he was in heaven, and yet he said that he was a great liar. Thus I mused of these opinions so greatly, that my mind was almost withdrawn from devotion to Saints. Notwithstanding I con scented that the divine service of them was very good, and is though I have not had such sweetness in it as I should have had, because of such Fables, & also because of other foolish pastimes, as dancing, tens and such other, which I think have been great occasions that the goodness of God hath been void in me, and vice in strength.
ALl Christen men beware of consentyng to Erasmus fables, for by consentyng to them, they haue caused me to shrinke in my fayth that I promised to God at my Christenyng by my witnesses.1