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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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Thus doing we shall follow the exhortation of blessed Paul,1 which writing to the Corinth. saith thus: Brethren the time is short, this remaineth, that they which have wives should be as they had them not: & those that weep, should be as they wept not: and those that buy, as if they were without possession: and they that occupy this world, as though they occupied it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. And this meaneth none other thing, but that we should not love nor dread any worldly thing, passing measure or inordinately, but God above all things, and all other things in him, or for him: & he that thus doth,2 fulfilleth the commandment of Christ, spoken to the rich man in the Gospel, where he saith: Go and sell all that ever thou hast, 3and come follow me. For he hath sold away all that ever he hath, that surely intendeth for the love of Christ, to help the poor with all that he may. Voluntas reputatur pro facto: The will is accepted for the deed, as is said commonly. And this saying both of James, and also of the Evangelist, I think verily belongeth to all christen men that they should perform it, none except, neither lay man, nor women (as we use to say) but to them as well as to any whom we call religious.
Thus doing we shall follow the exhortation of blessed Paule,1 which writing to the Corinth. sayth thus: Brethren the time is short, this remayneth, that they whiche haue wiues should be as they had them not: & those that weepe, should be as they wept not: and those that buy, as if they were without possession: and they that occupy this world, as though they occupyed it not: for the fashiō of this world passeth away. And this meaneth none other thing, but that we should not loue ne dread any worldly thing, passing measure or inordinatly, but God aboue all thinges, and all other thinges in him, or for him: & he that thus doth,2 fulfilleth the commaundement of Christ, spoken to the rich man in the Gospell, where he sayth: Goe and sell all that euer thou hast,