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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quaeso Domine mi, quia inuenit seruus tuus gratiam corā te ut saluares me: non possum in monte saluari, ne fortè apprehē dat me malum & moriar. Est Civitas juxta hic ad quam▪ possum fugere parua, 1& saluabor in ea. Quid est quod Loth à Sodomis fugiens praecipiente Angelo ut in monte saluaretur, montem ascē dere quia ibi mori timebat, noluit, sed Segor paruā civitatem juxtà montem positam, ut in ea saluaretur, ad habitandum elegir, nisi quicunque fidelium Sodometicae libidinis incendium & periculum evadere cupiens, dumb celsitudinē virginalem non valet, & castitatis vidualis timet ascendere ne in ea periclitetur ad cō jugalem copulam cùm ad utramque continentiam p•r•ula est & utrique proxima, 2confugit? Namque post continentias supradictas, haec castitas probatur laudabilis, & non privatur praemio regni coelestis. Ad hanc castitatem, qui non potest continere, jubetur accedere & in ea suluari, ne fortè si montem ascenderit, apprehendat eum malū & moriatur, & ne, si continentiam non sibi divinitus concessam, suis viribus obtinere tentaverit, malum incontinentiae vel fornicationis vel aliquarum supradictarum pes••um eum apprehendat, & in eis mortaliter pereat. Sunt enim multi qui dū infirmitatem suam non considerant, & dum maiora see apprehendere conantur, ipsa sua praecipitatione retroacti, in deteriora labuntur: quia dum maiora inconsultius ambiunt, minora quae tenere videbantur, 3amittunt. Quod sanè exemplo ipsius Loth apertè demonstratur: qui dum relicta Segor quam ad habitandum elegerat, & in qua saluari petierat, in montem ascendit, ibique mansit, in incestum filiarum suarum, ipsarum surreptione corruit, sicut scriptura dicit. Ita namque scriptum est: Ascendit Loth de Segor & mansit in monte, dederuntque filia patri suo bibire vinum nocte illa, & ingressa est maior, dormivitque cum patre. Quod nequaquam sibi contigisset, si in Segor in qua saluari poterat, ad praeceptum Angeli, sicut ille postulaverat, remaneret. Sed quia hoc quod sibi ab Angelo concessum fuerat, dereliquit, & quod concessum non fuerat, 4