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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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¶The answer of John Lambert to the first Article.
¶The aunswere of Iohn Lambert to the first Article.
Unto your first demand wherein you do ask, whether I was suspect or infamed of heresy.1 I answer that I am not certain what all persons at all seasons have deemed or suspected of me, peradventure some better, some worse, like as the opinion of the people was never one, but thought diversly of all the famous prophets,2 & of the Apostles, yea and of Christ himself: as appeareth in S. John, how, when he came into Jerusalem in the feast called Scenopegia, anon there arose upon him a great noise, some saying that he was a very good man, other said nay, & called him a seducer, because he led the people from the right ways of Moses law, into error. Seeing therefore that all men could not say well by Christ, which is the author of verity and truth, yea the very truth it self, and likewise of his best servants: what should I need to regard, if at some time, some person for a like cause should suspect of me amiss, and evil report of me. Seeing moreover it is said in the Gospell. Vae vobis, cum laudaverint vos omnes homines. &c. Woe be to you when all men speak well of you: 3for so did their fathers to the false prophets. If therefore at any season such infamy was put upon me, I am glad that I have so little regarded the same, that now I have forgotten it. And though I did remember any such, yet were I more then twice a fool to show you thereof: for it is written in your own law: Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum: 4