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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 Argument in form. Ba- Sacraments ben seals ascertaining us of Gods good will:1 ro- Without the word there is no certainty of Gods good will: co. Ergo, without the word there be no Sacraments.
*The Argument in forme. Ba- Sacramentes bē seales ascerteyning vs of Gods good wil:1 ro- Without the word there is no certaynty of Gods good will: co. Ergo, without the word there be no Sacraments.
- 1Sacraments ben seals certifying us of Gods good will.Sacramentes bē seales certyf•ing vs of Gods good will.
The first part of this reason is S. Pauls own saying, the fourth to the Romans, where he saith: That circumcision is a token and a seal of the righteousness of faith. Ergo, it requireth faith to certify mans hart of the will of god.1 But the word of God is the foundation of faith as Saint Paul witnesseth. Rom. 10. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing cometh by the word of God. 2For the mind must be taught & instructed to the will of God by the word, like as the eye is taught and instructed by the outward ceremony. And so Paul by that saying confuteth this opinion,3 that the Sacraments should make men righteous & just before God, for the very outward work, without faith of them that receive them.