A67926:3759
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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Illi etiam magis errant qui hoc inuitis & nolentibus imperant, & nō spontaneè sed coactè in Sacrarium Dei dona offerre suadent, nescientes aut obliti illius quod Dominus Moysi & Moyses à Domino praecepit dicens• Separate apud vos primitias Domino: quisque voluntarius & bono animo offerat eas Domino. Quid est separare apud vos primitias Domino, 1nisi studiosa cogitatione & meditation in cordibus vestris tractare, & cum discretione deponere & dividere, quid Domino de thesauro cordis nostri valeamus offerre? Si enim rectè offeras & non rectè dividas, peccasti. Et quid est prono animo offerre, nisi quod ait Psalmista: voluntariè sacrificabo tibi? Et Apostolus: Non ex tristitia aut necessitate: Hilarem datorem diligit Deus. Et Salomon, Bono animo gloriam redde Domino, & in omni Dato hilarem fac vultum tuum, & in exultation sanctifica decimas tuas, & in bono oculo facito adinuentionē manuū tuarū. Et Apostolus Jacobus: 2Nō amat Dominus (inquit) coacta seruitia. Et, maledictus qui opus Domini facit negligenter .i. nō curiosè neque voluntariè. Sicut nos ergo Dominus inuitos aliquid offerre non jubet: ita vos inuitos aliquos offer aliquid cogere, prohibet per eundem Moysen ubi ait: 3Ne facias Calumniam proximo tuo, nec vi opprimas eum. Calumniā proximo facere, est eū non compatiendo & miserando corrigere de peccato: sed dedignido & exprobrando & detrahendo arguere & accusare, & non in spiritu lenitatis instruere, sed in spiritu asperitatis & austeritatis destruere, cum Apostolus dicat: 4Si praeoccupatus fuerit homo in aliquo delicto, vos qui spirituales estis instruite huiusmodi in spiritu lenitatis, considerans teipsum ne & tu tenteris. Vi opprimere proximū, est ultra vires suas aliquid exigere, & onus quod portare nō potest imponere, imponentibus fortassis importabile, 5cùm Dominus de Pharisaeis ad Discipulos loquens, hoc eis prohibeat dicens: Super cathredam Moysi sedent Scribe & Pharisaei, &c. Et Apostolus Petrus: Pascite (inquit) qui in vobis est, gregem Domini, providentes, non coactè, sed spontaneè, secundū Dominum: neque turpis lucri gratia, sed voluntariè: neque dominantes in Clero, sed forma estote gregi ex animo.