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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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Then went they away out of the Council, rejoicing that God had made them worthy to suffer such rebukes for his name sake.1 But yet they never ceased to teach & preach of Jesus Christ, every day in the temple, and in all houses that they came into. This is written in the 4.5. and 6. of the Acts of the apostles, & for our instruction, doubt you not: for such practise is showed in all ages. So that hereby you may set,2 when men be wrongfully suspect or infamed of heresy, and so prohibited by Bishops for to preach the word of God,3 that they ought for no mans commandment to leave or stop, though they do never purge themselves afore them, for such will admit no just purgation many times, but judge in their own causes, and that as they lust, which me thinketh, is not all comely. Therefore in the old law the priests and other Judges do sit together, hearing of matters that were in controversy.
Then went they away out of the Councell, reioycing that God had made thē worthye to suffer such rebukes for his name sake.1 But yet they neuer ceased to teach & preach of Iesus Christ, euery day in the temple, and in all houses that they came into. This is written in the 4.5. and 6. of the Actes of the apostles, & for our instruction, doubt you not: for such practise is shewed in all ages. So that hereby you may set,2 when men be wrongfully suspect or infamed of heresy, and so prohibited by Bishops for to preach the worde of God,3 that they ought for no mans commaundement to leaue or stop, though they do neuer purge themselues afore them, for such will admitte no iust purgation many times, but iudge in theyr own causes, and that as they lust, which me thinketh, is not all comely. Therfore in the old law the priestes and other Iudges do sit together, hearing of matters that were in controuersy.
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