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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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To make an end, I hope surely that by the aid of our saviour, I shall come to heaven and reign with Christ, ere that I shall feel any purgatory, beside that I have & shall sustain in this life. And he that believeth not steadfastly any other to be, shall yet be saved as well (and God wotteth whether better or no, but I think no whit less) as such as teach the people or suffer them to be taught, that in going from this station to that, from one altar to an other they shall cause souls to be delivered:1 yea and as well such as say that a man being buried in a grey Friars frock, shall so have remission of the the third part of his sins, as is granted in a Bull unto the said Religion: and such like. For as S. Augustine shall make with me in his book called Enchiridion, after he hath confuted the opinion of some that in the church of Christ, living in mischief ungraciously, taking thereof no repentance, did yet falsely deem that they should be saved through the cleansing of purgatory: where he concludeth thus: Such a thing after this life to be (saith he) is not incredible, but whether it be so or no, a doubt may be thereof moved or a question demanded. The same words doth he again recite in a book called, Quaestiones ad dulcium, or dulcitium I wot not whether he is called, and there he entreateth the same more copiously: and would I might see the place once again.
To make an end, I hope surely yt by the ayde of our sauiour, I shall come to heauen and reigne with Christ, ere that I shall feele any purgatory, beside that I haue & shall susteine in this life. And he that beleueth not stedfastly any other to be, shall yet be saued as well (and God woteth whether better or no, but I thinke no whit lesse) as suche as teache the people or suffer them to be taught, that in going from this statiō to that, from one altar to an other they shall cause soules to be deliuered:1 yea and as well such as say that a man being buried in a gray Friers frocke, shall so haue remission of the the third part of his sinnes, as is graunted in a Bull vnto the sayd Religion: and such like. For as S. Augustine shall make with me in his book called Enchiridion, after he hath confuted the opiniō of some that in the church of Christ, liuing in mischiefe vngraciously, taking therof no repentaunce, did yet falsly deeme that they shoulde be saued through the clensing of purgatorye: where hee concludeth thus: Suche a thing after this life to be (sayth he) is not incredible, but whether it be so or no, a doubt may be therof moued or a question demanded. The same wordes doth he agayn recite in a booke called, Quaestiones ad dulcium, or dulcitium I wotte not whether he is called, and there he intreateth the same more copiously: and would I might see the place once agayne.