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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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The second is the confession which is openly made in the face of the congregation. And this confession also hath place when any such thing is committed, whereof riseth a public offence and slander to the Church of God: As examples of penitentiaries in the primitive Church, & Melciades and other. &c.
The second is the confession which is openly made in the face of the congregation. And this confession also hath place when any such thing is committed, whereof riseth a publicke offence and sclaunder to the Church of God: As amples of penitentiaries in the prim•tiue Church, & Melciades and other. &c.
The third kind of confession is that, which we make privately to our brother.1 And this confession is requisite, when either we have injured or by any way damnified our neighbour, whether he be rich or poor. Whereof speaketh the Gospel: Go and reconcile thy self first unto thy neighbour. &c. Also S. James: Confess your selves one to another. &c. Or else this confession may also have place, when any such thing lieth in our conscience, in the opening whereof we stand in need of the counsel & comfort of some faithful brother. But herein must we use discretion in avoiding these points of blind superstition. First that we put therein no necessity for remission of our sins,2 but to use therein our own voluntary discretion, according as we see it expedient for the better satisfying of our troubled mind. The second is,3 that we be not bound to any enumeration of our sins. The third, that we tie not our selves to any one person, more then to an other, but to use therein our free choice, whom we think can give us the best spiritual counsel in the Lord.
The thirde kinde of confession is that, which we make priuately to our brother.