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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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God therefore I beseech him, send us of the sweet dew of his heavenly doctrine,1 to moisten and supple the earthly ground of our hearts, that we may grow like fashioned unto him, putting apart our old Adam, with all his dissimulation and painted show, that is much caused by human laws and constitutions, and do upon Christ, that is the very truth and the way directing men to the same. Amen.
God therfore I besech him, send vs of the sweet dew of his heauenly doctrine,1 to moysten and supple the earthlye groūd of our hartes, that we may grow like fashioned vnto him, putting apart our old Adam, with all his dissimulation and paynted shew, that is much caused by humaine lawes and constitutions, and do vpon Christ, that is ye very truth and the way directing men to the same. Amen.
- 1Multitude of laws unprofitable.Multitude of lawes vnprofitable.
¶Unto the xviij. where you ask,1 whether it be laudable and profitable, that worshipful Images be set in churches for the remembrance of Christ and his saints? I say,2 that I know of no images that ought to be worshipped, specially made by the hand of men: for the Psal. saith: Confusion or shame be upon them that worship or make obeisance unto carved Images, & that glory in their pictures. Moreover S. Augustine in his book de vera religione, sayth thus: Let us not have devotion in worshipping the works of men: or else thus,3 let us not be bound to worship the works of men, for the workmen are more excellent then the things which they make: whom notwithstanding we ought not to worship: The latin is thus: Non sit nobis religio humanorum operum cultus,