A67926:3270
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
They are condemned, you wot well, & I perhaps shall have a little less favour because I tell the trueth freely, for such things are called offensive. But would God, that all persons so thinking,1 would remember what answer Christ made unto his disciples in the 15. of Math. when they came unto him, and warned him to beware saying: You know that the Pharisees are offended, hearing such words spoken. I will leave out Christs answer, least I should be thought over free and plain in tarrying or uttering of abusions, and speak no further.
They are condemned, you wote wel, & I perhaps shal haue a litle lesse fauor because I tell ye trueth freely, for such thinges are called offensiue. But would God, that all persons so thinking,1 would remember what aunswere Christ made vnto his disciples in the 15. of Math. whē they came vnto him, and warned him to beware saying: You knowe that the Phariseis are offended, hearing such wordes spoken. I will leaue out Christes aunswere, least I should be thought ouer free and plain in tarying or vttering of abusions, and speake no further.
- 1Math. 15.
A like demand with answer thereto annexed,1 shall you find in the 11. of Luke, where Christ would not refrain to speak any deal more easily. Therefore I beseech them that deem me (God wotteth whether▪ righteously or no) slanderously to revise the said places, and ⟨p. 1115⟩then counsel me to do that shall be most expedient to follow if their charity will so require. Yet would I that all people should know, that I do not reprove that saying of the xv. Oos, which (so far orth as my remembrance doth serve) is a very good prayer,