A67926:3763
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.
Quia sunt nonnulli, qui dum coniugalem vitam quae sibi concessa est, & in qua saluari possent, vel inuiti vel volentes deserunt, & maiori profectus desiderio caelibem vitam actitare satagunt, salutem quam in illa habere poterant, perdunt, & periculum maximum in ista incurrunt, & ex quo proficere conabantur, magis deficiunt (& sicut supradiximus) in maioris ruinae voraginem vergunt. Quod bene Doctor gentiū Paulus considerans, & infirmis quibusque benignè prospiciens Corinthijs super his scriptis suis se consulentibus, ita rescripsit dicens: De quibus autem scripsistis mihi: bonum homini est mulierē non tangere: 1propter fornicationem autem vitandam, unusquisque uxorem suam habeat, & unaquaeque virum. Et uxori vir debitum reddat: similiter uxor viro. Et post pauca, Nolite (inquit) fraudari inuicem, nisi fortè ex consensu ad temptus, ut vacetis orationi: & iterum revertimini in idipsum ne tentet vos Satanas propter incō tinentiam vestram: quoniam, sicut ait Poeta, non omnia possimus omnes: Et sicut Apostolus in superioribus dixit: Quia non est volentis neque currentis, sed Dei miserentis: Et alibi: 2Quia unicuique nostrum data est gratia secundum mensuram donationis Christi. Hanc mensuram unicuique tenendam nec transgrediendam esse, docens mox intulit: Volo autem omnes homines esse sicut meipsum, sed unusquisque proprium habet donum ex Deo, alius quidē sic▪ alius autem sic: Quia videlicet mensura nos arcendos, & debere esse contentos in sequentibus intimavit dicens: Unumquē que sicut vocavit Deus, ita ambulet. Et unusquisque in qua uocatione vocatus est, in hac permaneat apud Deum Et hoc idem repetit paulò inferius causa confirmationis: Unusquisque in quo vocarus est frater, in hoc permaneat apud Deum. Et quia infirmitatem humanā videbat non posse tollerare incentiva *gemini calori• ▪ nisi per gratiam Dei, neque vincere pugnam carnis aduersus spiritum: & quia sic ipse dixit de se alibi• Videbam aliam legē in men bris meis, repugnantem legi mentis meae, hoc se misericorditer, & compatienter, & unanimiter, nō regulariter neque imperativè dix isse, sicut in alia epistola, monstraverat ubi ait: Humanū dico propter infirmitatem carnis vestrae.