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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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And thus is it convenient to be done: For the Pope is made of flesh as well as other men, and therefore he may sometime judge awry, cursing the blessed,1 and blessing the cursed? and likewise may other Prelates judging the Christen to be heretics, and heretics Christen. Of whom it is also written in the prophecy of Ezekiel:2 Mortificabant animas, quae non moriuntur, & vivificabant animas, quae non vivunt: They slew the souls of them that should not dye, and gave life to the souls that should not live. 3As did the Pharisees when they did cast Christ out of the Vineyard, which signifieth the Church. Mark. 11.4 And as our Saviour prophesied in the xix. of John, saying unto his Disciples: There shall be (quoth he) some that shall excommunicate you, yea, and the time shall come, that who so ever shall slay you: shall think to do honour to GOD, and this shall they do unto ⟨p. 1114⟩you, because they do neither know my father nor me. These words be written in the Gospel of John 19. Whereby you see, that for lack o• knowledge of God, which is taught and s•ne by the light of scripture, Christ prophesied how lewd men should lewdly excommunicate the good, yea & slay his true servants, thinking through such facts to please god, and to do him good service.
And thus is it conuenient to be done: For the Pope is made of fleshe as well as other men, and therefore he may sometime iudge awry, cursing the blessed,1 and blessing the cursed? and likewise may other Prelates iudging the Christen to be hereticks, and heretickes Christen. Of whō it is also written in the prophecy of Ezechiel: