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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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But howsoever the said clause or parcel be applied, it shall not greatly skill: for my sentence notwithstanding remaineth full steadfast. Insomuch, as the scripture doth mention but of two Advents or comings of Christ, of which the first is performed in his blessed incarnation,1 and the second is the coming at the general dome. And furthermore, in this Article of our Creed: From thence shall he come to judge the quick and the dead, is not only showed wherefore he shall come again, but also when he shall come again so that in the mean while, as the other Article of our Creed witnesseth: He sitteth at the right hand of God his father, that is not else to say, then he remaineth in glory with the father. Furthermore, even as I have before rehearsed the foresaid authority of Augustine, so have I read it in his Quinquagenes upon a Psalm, of which I can not now precisely note or name the number. And the same words doth he also write in the Epistle to S. Hierome. So that we may know he had good liking in it, that he so commonly doth use it, as his usual proverb or by word.2
But howsoeuer the sayde clause or parcel be applied, it shall not greatly skill: for my sentence notwythstāding remaineth full stedfast. In somuch, as the scripture doth mē tion but of two Aduents or commings of Christe, of which the first is performed in his blessed incarnation,1 and the second is ye comming at the general dome. And furthermore, in this Article of our Creede: From thence shall hee come to iudge the quicke and the dead, is not onely shewed wherfore hee shall come againe, but also when he shall come agayne so that in the meane while, as ye other Article of our Crede witnesseth: He sitteth at the right hande of God his father, that is not els to say, thē he remaineth in glory with the father. Furthermore, euen as I haue before rehearsed the foresaid authority of Augustine, so haue I read it in his Quinquagenes vpon a Psalme, of whiche I can not now precisely note or name the number. And the same words doth he also write in the Epistle to S. Hierome. So yt we may know he had good liking in it, that he so commonly doth vse it, as his vsuall prouerbe or by word.2