A67926:3758
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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Instrumentum namque sordidam materiam, & horridam atque asperam, obscuram, & quasi coecam emaculat & expolit, & claram, planam ac lucidam, forma superueniente, reddit. Sic & mandatum, liberum arbit•ium sordidum & horridum, asperum & incultum, obscu•um & coecū, nitidat, commit, lenit, & excolit, lucidat, & illuminat: sicut Propheta dicit: 1praeceptum domini lucidum, illuminans oculos, splendore gratiae superueniente. Et sicut materia & instrumentum sine forma nihil valent, ita libera voluntas & mandatum sine gratia nihil virtutis habent. Quid enim liberum arbitrium vel mandatum sine gratia praeveniente & subsequente potest▪ Gratia namque ad liberum arbitrium, 2mandatum quasi nuntium ac famulum mittit: mandatum liberum arbitrium provocat atque quasi sopitum excitat, ut ad bona facienda evigilet & exurgat, viamque ei quam peragere debeat, quasi coeco deducendo demonstrat. Quorum utrunque▪ si à gratia deseritur, nihil omninò per se potest. Quod si conatur, deficit, non proficit, neque etiam efficit, vel perficit. Si praesumit, non assumit, sed potius to tam operam & laborem frustra consumit. Cùm enim mandatum, seu per hominem sive per Angelū mittitur, & etiam liberum a•bitrium seu humano seu angelico mandati nuncio commovetur, provocatur, & instruitur, […] divina gratia comitetur, praeveniat, & subsequatur, quid valebi•• Quid nempè homini in paradiso posito mandatū quod audivit: E• omni ligno Paradisi comede, de ligno vero scientiae boni & mali ne comedat? Nihil prorsus ad salutem, 3sed potius ad condemnationem. Quare? Quia gratia saluatrix & auxiliatrix defuit, quā ille iniustè suis viribus fisus, contempsit. Aut quid valuit Israelitico populo in Eremo constituto, mandatū legis quod per Moyse accepit, cui obedire neglexit? 4Aut quid profuit illi qui Dominū se qui suo arbitrio, & non illius vocatione praesumit dicens: Domine, sequa te quocunque jeris. Ex multis alijs divinae scripturae locis novi & veteris Testamenti demonstrari potest, quòd neque mandatū, neque liberū arbitriū per se quicquā valet, nisi divina gratia praeveniendo & subsequendo adivvet. Cùm igitur continentiae bonū, imò omne bonū sit solius divinae gratiae donū, nec per mandatum,