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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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So that to conclude, I think verily it were profitable and expedient, that the holy Scripture were delivered by authority of the head rulers, unto the people truly tram slated in the vulgar tongue, in like manner as it is in all other countries. And whereas you add, whether they be bound by necessity of salvation, to deliver it to the people? I will not so narrowly touch that point now, but I say, that they are bound by right & equity, to cause it to be delivered unto the people in the vulgar tongue, for their edifying & consolation, which the people by Gods grace, should thereof gather, that now it is like they want, & are destitute of.
So that to conclude, I thinke verily it were profitable and expedient, that the holy Scripture were deliuered by authority of the head rulers, vnto the people truly trā slated in the vulgar tongue, in like maner as it is in all other countries. And whereas you adde, whether they be bound by necessitie of saluation, to deliuer it to ye people? I wil not so narowly touch that point now, but I say, that they are bound by right & equity, to cause it to be deliuered vnto the people in the vulgar tongue, for their edifying & consolation, which the people by Gods grace, should therof gather, that now it is like they want, & are destitute of.
In the .xxvij. where you do demand, whether it be lawful for the rulers, for some cause, upon their reasonable advisement,1 to ordain that the Scripture should not be delivered unto the people, in the vulgar language? all men may here see, that whosoever devised these questions, thought not contrary (whatsoever they will yet say) but that it is good for the people to have the Scripture in the vulgar tongue,2 & that they thought, that I so saying could not be well reproved, and therefore are laid out all these additions, as it were to snare and trap me in: whether the heads he bound, and that by necessity of salvation, to deliver it to the people: and whether for opportunity of time, they may ordain to restrain it for some cause, and by some reasonable advisement of them taken. Sed frustra jacitur rete ante oculos pennatorum: