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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 8 › ¶Injunctions exhibited. an. 1538.Book 8 › ¶Iniunctions exhibited. ann. 1538.
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, that ye shall provide on this side the feast of N. next coming,1 one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said Church that ye have cure of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same & read it. The charges of which book shall be ratably borne between you, the parson and parishioners aforesaid: that is to say, the one half by you, & the other half by them.
Item, that ye shall prouide on this side the feast of N. next comming,1 one booke of the whole Byble of the largest volume in English, and the same set vp in some conueniēt place within the said Church that ye haue cure of, whereas your parishioners may most cōmodiously resorte to ye same & read it. The charges of which booke shal be ratably borne betwene you, the parson and parishoners aforesaid: that is to say, the one halfe by you, & the other halfe by thē.
- 1For the Bible to be set up in Churches.For the Bible to be set vp in Churches.
Item, that ye shall discourage no man, privily nor apertly, from the reading or hearing of the said Bible, but shall expressly provoke, stir & exhort every person to read the same, as that which is the very lively word of God, that every Christen persons is bounden to embrace, believe, & follow, if he look to be saved, admonishing them nevertheless to avoid all contention and alteration therein, and to use an honest sobriety in the inquisition of the true sense of the same, and to refer the explication of the obscure places, to men of higher judgement in scripture.
Item, that yee shall discourage no man, priuely nor apertly, from the reading or hearing of the sayd Bible, but shal expresly prouoke, stirre & exhort euery person to reade the same, as that which is ye very liuely word of God, that euery Christen persons is bounden to embrace, beleeue, & folow, if he looke to be saued, admonishing them neuerthelesse to auoyde all contention and alteration therein, and to vse an honest sobrietie in the inquisition of the true sence of the same, and to referre the explication of the obscure places, to men of higher iudgement in scripture.