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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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Book 7 › *Prophecies going before Martin Luther.Book 7 › *Prophecies going before Martine Luther.
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.
¶Where is to be noted, that counting from the year 1415. (in the which year John Hus was burned) or from the year 2416. when Hierome did suffer) unto the year, 1516, (when Martin Luther began first to write) we shall find the number of an hundred years expired.
¶Where is to be noted, that counting from the yeare 1415. (in the which yeare Iohn Hus was burned) or from the yeare 2416. when Hierome did suffer) vnto the yeare, 1516, (when Martine Luther began first to write) we shal finde the number of an hundereth yeares expyred.
Likewise, to this may be adjoined the prophetical vision or dream,1 which chanced to the said John Hus lying in the dungeon of the friars in Constance, a little before he was burned, His dream as he himself reporteth it in his Epistles writing to M. John Chlum, and as I have also before recorded the same pag. 630. so will I now repeat the same again in like effect of words, as he wrote it himself in Latin: the effect of which latin is this.
Likewise, to this may be adioyned the propheticall vision or dreame,1 which chaunced to the sayd Iohn Hus lying in the dungeon of the friers in Constance, a litle before he was burned, His dreame as he himselfe reporteth it in his Epistles writing to M. Iohn Chlum, and as I haue also before recorded the same pag. 630. so will I nowe repeate the same agayne in like effect of wordes, as he wrote it himselfe in Latine: the effect of which latine is this.
- 1An other prophesie of I. Hus, touching the reformation of the church. Vid. supra. 630.