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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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With that speaketh his disciples: If thus the case stand betwixt a man and his wife: it shall be hurtful and not expedient to contract matrimony. He made answer: Every man cannot away with that saying, but they unto whom it is given of God: Meaning that every man could not abide single or unmarried,1 but such unto whom was was given of God a special grace so to continue. And if with your better advise I might be somewhat herein bold, I would suppose that where as he doth say: Non omnes sunt capaces huius dicti (Every man cannot away with that saying) thys word Non omnes, ought to be here taken as it is in many other places of Scripture, as where in the psalm it is sayd:2 Non justificabitur in conspectu tuo omnis vivens. It is meant that no person living shall be justified afore God. And in the Epistle to the Galatians, and to the Romans where it is sayd: Ex operibus, legis non instificabitur omnis caro. (By the works of the law,3 no flesh shall be justified in his sight) it is meant thereby nulla caro, so that non omnis, after ye rule of equipollence, should be taken forasmuch as nullus: and then then the sense should be thus, Nulli sunt capaces huius dicti nisi hi quibus datum sit. 4No man can be capax of this saying, or can so pass their life without marriage, except those which have it given them by a singular grace of God to live chaste.
With that speaketh his disciples: If thus the case stand betwixt a man and hys wife: it shall be hurtful and not expedient to contract matrimony. He made aunswere: Euery man cannot away with that saying, but they vnto whome it is geuen of God: Meaning that euery man coulde not abide single or vnmaryed,1 but such vnto whome was was geuē of God a special grace so to continue. And if with your better aduise I might be somewhat herein bolde, I woulde suppose that where as he doth say: Non omnes sunt capaces huius dicti (Euery man cānot away with that saying) thys worde Non omnes, ought to be here taken as it is in many other places of Scripture, as where in ye psalme it is sayd: