A67926:4115
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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S. Augustine saith, that there be but two such Sacraments, in the cxviij. Epistle to Januarius. His words be these:1 First, I would have thee to understand the sum and effect of this disputation, which is this: that our Lord Jesus Christ (as he he himself saith in the Gospel) hath laden us, but with a light and easy yoke or burden. Wherefore he hath knit together the fellowship of his new people with Sacraments, 2very few in nun ber, very easy to be kept: & very excellent in signification, which be Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord, and such other, if there be any moe commanded in the holy Scripture, those except which were burdens for the servitude of the people in the old law, for the hardness of their hearts. &c. And again in the iij. book of the learning of a Christian man,3 he saith: The Scripture hath taught us but few signs, as be the Sacrament of Baptism, and the solemn celebration and remembrance of the body and blood of the Lord. &c.
S. Augustine sayth, that there be but two such Sacramentes, in the cxviij. Epistle to Ianuarius. His wordes be these:1 First, I would haue thee to vnderstand the summe and effect of this disputation, which is this: that our Lord Iesus Christ (as he he himselfe sayth in the Gospell) hath ladē vs, but with a light and easy yoke or burden. Wherefo•e he hath knit together the felowship of his new people with Sacraments, 2very few in nū ber, very easy to be kept: & very excellent in signification, which be Baptisme, and the Supper of the Lord, and such other, if there be any moe commaunded in the holye Scripture, those excepte which were burdens for the seruitude of the people in the olde law, for the hardnes of theyr hartes. &c. And agayne in the iij. book of the learning of a Christian man,3 he sayth: The Scripture hath taught vs but few signes, as be the Sacrament of Baptisme, and the solemne celebration and remembraunce of the body and bloud of the Lord. &c.