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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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Thus this strong imagination of fire being fixed in their heads, as nothing could remove them to think contrary but that the Church was on fire: so every thing that they saw or heard,1 increased this suspicion in them, to make it seem most true, which was in deed most false. The first & chiefest occasion that augmented this suspicion, was the heretic there bearing his fagot, which gave them to imagine, that all other heretics, had conspired with him, to set the Church on fire.
Thus this strong imaginatiō of fire being fixed in their heades, as nothing could remoue them to thinke contrary but that the Church was on fire: so euery thing that they saw or heard,1 encreased this suspition in them, to make it seme most true, which was in deede most false. The first & chiefest occasion that augmēted this suspition, was the hereticke there bearing his fagot, which gaue them to imagine, that all other heretickes, had conspired with him, to set the Church on fire.
- 1What strong imagination can do in deluding mans senses.
After this, through the rage of the people & running too and fro, the dust was so raised, that it showed as it had been the smoke of fire. Which thing together with the outcry of the people, made all men so afraid, that leaving the Sermon, they began altogether to run away. But such was the press of the multitude running in heaps together, that the more they laboured, the less they could give out. For whilst they ran all headlong unto the doors every man striving to get out first, the thrust one another in such sort, and stuck so fast, that they which were without, neither could get into the Church, again, neither they that were within could get out by any means. So the one door being stopped, the ran to an other little wicket on the North side, towards the College called Brason nose,