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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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Whereunto agreeth well S. Augustine. Every one (quoth he) that saith unto you. Pax vobis, ought not to be heard, or to be believed, as a dove. Crows be fed of dead carrion: & so is not a dove: but liveth by the fruits of the earth.1 Her living is pure, innocent and hurtless. Whereby you may see, that ill Bishops are no Bishops, and that they which follow no Saints in virtuous living, are not the successors of Saints, but unsavoury salt, that is, neither of the church, nor shall come in heaven to reign there with Peter & Paul, but be thrown out with great contempt. For God knoweth a dove from a crow, and an innocent liver from a devourer of carrion. But such as declare and show good deeds, as the Saints did, be their children and successors, and shall with them reign in heaven.
Wherunto agreeth wel S. Augustine. Euery one (quoth he) that saith vnto you. Pax vobis, ought not to be heard, or to be beleeued, as a doue. Crows be fedde of dead carion: & so is not a doue: but liueth by the fruites of the earth.1 Her liuing is pure, innocent and hurtlesse. Whereby you may see, that ill Bishops are no Byshops, and that they which folow no Saints in vertuous liuing, are not the successors of Saints, but vnsauery salt, that is, neither of the church, ne shal come in heauen to reigne there with Peter & Paul, but be thrown out with great contēpt. For God knoweth a doue from a crow, and an innocent liuer from a deuourer of carion. But such as declare and shew good deeds, as the Saints did, be their childrē and successours, and shal with them reigne in heauen.
- 1Let us mark not how the bird speaketh, but how he feedeth. The Crow feedeth upon carrion, the Dove not so.Let vs marke not how the byrde speaketh, but how he feedeth. The Crow feedeth vpō carion, the Doue not so.
So that to conclude, I say,