A67926:3486
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 if they would, doth not Paul himself grant that it should be an evil President, & an evil example to have an armed Council?
And if they would, do•h not Paule himselfe graūt that it should be an euill President, & an euill example to haue an armed Councell?
Howe so ever it shall be, we most heartily desire you, that ye will vouchsafe to read those things that we wrote this last year, touching the Mantuan Council. For we nothing doubt, but you, of your equity, will stand on our side against their subtlety and frauds, and judge (except we be deceived) that we in this business, neither gave so much to our affections, neither without great and most just causes, refused their Councils, their Censures, and Decrees.
Howe so euer it shall be, we most hartily desire you, that ye will vouchsafe to read those thinges that we wrote this last yeare, touching the Mantuan Councell. For we nothing doubt, but you, of your equity, will stand on our side agaynst theyr subtlety and fraudes, and iudge (except we be deceiued) that we in this busines, neither gaue so much to our affectiōs, neither without great and most iust causes, refused theyr Councelles, theyr Censures, and Decrees.
Whether these our writings please all men, or no, we think we ought not to pass much. No, if that which indifferently is written of us, may please indifferent readers, our desire is accomplished. The false and mistaking of things by men partial shall move us nothing, or else very little. If we have said ought against the deceits of the Bishop of Rome, that may seem spoken too sharply, we pray you, impute it to the hatred we bear unto vices, and not to any evil will that we bear him. No, that he and all his may perceive that we are rather at strife with his vices, then with him and his: our prayer is, that it may please God, at the last to open their eyes, to make soft their hard hearts, and that they once may with us (their own glory set apart) study to set forth the everlasting glory of the everlasting God.