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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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This Barnes, after he came from the University of Louvain,1 went to Cambridge, where he was made Prior and master of the house of the Augustines. At that time the knowledge of good letters was scarcely entered into the University, all things being full of rudeness and barbarity, saving in very few, which were privy and secret. Whereupon Barnes having some feeling of better learning and authors, began in his house to read Terence, Plautus, & Cicero,2 so that what with his industry, pains & labours, and with the help of Tho. Parnell his scholar, whom he brought from Lovane with him, reading Copia verborum & rerum, he caused the house shortly to flourish with good letters, and made a great part of the house learned (which before were drowned in barbarous rudeness) as M. Cambridge, master Field, M. Colman, M. Burley, M. Coverdale, with divers other of the University, that sojourned there for learnings sake. After these foundations laid, then did he read openly in the house, Pauls Epistles, and put by Duns and Dorbel, and ye• he was a questionary himself: and only because he would have Christ there taught and his holy word, he turned their unsavoury Problems and fruitless disputations to other better matter of the holy scripture, & thereby in short space he made divers good divines. The same order of disputation which he kept in his house, he observed likewise in the university abroad when he should dispute with any man in the common schools. And the first man that answered Doctor Barnes in the Scriptures, was Master Stafford for his form to be Bachelor of divinity, which disputation was marvellous in the sight of the great blind Doctors, and joyful to the godly spirited.
This Barnes, after he came from the Uniuersitie of Louaine,1 went to Cambridge, where he was made Prior and maister of the house of the Augustines. At that tyme the knowledge of good letters was scarcely entred into the Uniuersitie, all things beyng full of rudenes and barbaritie, sauing in very few, which wer priuy and secret. Wherupon Barnes hauing some feeling of better learning and authors, began in his house to read Terence, Plautus, & Cicero,2