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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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Let the husband give unto his wife due benevolence: likewise also the wife unto her husband. And a little after: withdraw not (saith he) your selves one from an other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give your selves unto fasting and prayer: and afterward come together again le• to Satan tempt you for your incontinence. 1For as the Poe• saith, we can not all do all things, and as the Apostle saith: It is not in him that willeth not in him that runneth, but in God that showeth mercy. Also an other place: For to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 2And that every one of us ought to keep and not to transgress this measure, he teacheth anon after saying: I wish that all men were as I my self am but every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, an other after that.3 And that we are to be kept within our compass, and measure, and ought therewith to be content, he teacheth moreover as followeth: Let every man abide in that vocation wherein he is called, And shortly after, for confirmation thereof, he repeateth the same again and saith: Let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with the Lord And because he perceived that the infirmity of man was not able to sustain the burning motions and heats of nature stirring in a man, but only by the grace of God, neither to be able to conquer the flesh fighting against the spirit, according to that which he saith of himself in an other place: For I see an other Law in my members rebelling against the Law of my mind, he therefore of mercy and compassion, as condescending unto their weakness: and not by rigour of law and force of commandment, thus said. As also in an other place in his Epistles he speaketh in like words saying: I speak thus grossly after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh. And in this foresaid Epistle,4 moreover a little before, using the same manner of speech, he saith, Thus I say to you as of favour and not of commandment. And adding moreover, he showeth: As touching virgins I have no commandment of the Lord,