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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.
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To this may be adjoined, which in certain Chronicles, and in John Bale is recorded: which saith, that in the year of our Lord. 1516. which was the same year when Martin Luther began, Pope Leo the x. did create 31. Cardinals: In the which year and day of their creation, there fell a ten pest of thunder and lightning in Rome, which so strake the church where the Cardinals were made, that it removed the little Child Jesus out of the lap of his mother, and the keys out of Saint Peters hand. 1Which thing many then did interpret to signify and foreshow the subversion and alteration of the sea of Rome.
To this may be adioyned, whiche in certayne Chronicles, and in Iohn Bale is recorded: which sayth, that in ye yeare of our Lord. 1516. whiche was the same yeare when Martine Luther began, Pope Leo the x. dyd create 31. Cardinals: In the which yeare and day of theyr creation, there fell a tē pest of thūder and lightning in Rome, which so strake the church where the Cardinals were made, that it remoued the little Childe Iesus out of the lappe of hys mother, and the keyes out of Saint Peters hand. 1Whiche thing many then did interprete to signifie and foreshow the subuersion and alteration of the sea of Rome.
- 1An other signification of the popes subversion.An other signification of the popes subuersion.
Hitherto pertaineth also a strange portent and a prodigious token from heaven, in the year of our Lord. 1505.1 In the which year, under the reign of Maximilian Emperor, there appeared in Germany, upon the vestures of men as well of Priests, as lay men, upon women's garments also, and upon their rocks as they were spinning, diverse prints and tokens of the nails, of the sponge, of the spare, of the Lords, coat, and of bloody Crosses. &c. All which were seen upon their caps and gowns, as is most certainly testified and recorded by divers, which both did see & also did write upon the same. Of whom first was Maximilian the Emperor, who both had and showed the same to Franciscus Mirandula, which wrote thereupon a book in Latin meter called Staurostichon: wherein for the more credit, these verses be contained.