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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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Concerning free will, I mean altogether, as doth S. Augustine, that of our self we have no liberty nor ability to do the will of God, but are subject unto sin & thralls of the lame, conclusi sub peccatum, & vaenundati sub eodem: Shut up and sold under sin, as witnesseth both Isaiah & also Paul, but by the grace of God, we are rid and set at liberty, according to the portion that every man hath taken of the same, some more some less.
Concerning free will, I meane altogether, as doth S. Augustine, that of our selfe we haue no libertie ne habilitie to doe the will of God, but are subiect vnto sinne & thralds of the lame, conclusi sub peccatum, & vaenundati sub eodem: Shut vp and sold vnder sinne, as witnesseth both Esay & also Paule, but by the grace of God, wee are rid and set at libertie, according to the portion that euery man hath takē of the same, some more some lesse.
¶Whereas in your sixth demand, you do enquire whether the sacrament of the altar be a sacrament necessary unto salvation,1 and whether after the consecration of the bread & wine done by the priest,2 as by the minister of God there is the very body and blood of Christ in likeness of bread & wine: I neither can nor will answer one word, otherwise than I have told sith I was first delivered into your hands Neither would I have answered one whit thereunto, knowing so much at the first as I now do, till you had brought forth some that would have accused me to have trespassed in the same, which I am certain you can not do, bringing any that is honest and credible.
¶Whereas in your sixt demaund, you do enquire whether the sacrament of the aulter be a sacrament necessarye vnto saluation,1 and whether after the consecration of the bread & wine done by the priest,