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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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Or if you think it but a light or trifling matter in them go to now, do you also with like courage, contemn,1 & with like patience suffer now the same torments your selves. And if so be it I should now suffer you with the whole Church to be burned to ashes, what other thing should I do unto you, then you do daily unto your fellows and brethren? Wherefore since you so little esteem the death of others, be now content that other men should also little regard the death of you. With this (I say) or with some other like answer, if that either God, or humane charity, either the common sense of nature would expostulate with them, yea if there had been a fire indeed (as they were more ⟨p. 1209⟩feared then hurt) who would have doubted but that it had happened unto them according to their deserts? But now worthy it is the noting, how the vain fear and folly of those catholics either was deluded, either how their cruelty was reproved, whereby they being better taught by their own example, might hereafter learn what is to put other poor men to the fire which they themselves here so much abhorred.2
Or if you thinke it but a light or trifling matter in thē go to now, do you also with like courage, cōtemne,1 & with like patience suffer now the same tormentes your selues. And if so be it I shoulde nowe suffer you with the whole Church to be burned to ashes, what other thing shoulde I do vnto you, then you do dayly vnto your felowes and brethren? Wherefore since you so litle esteme the death of others, be now content that other men shoulde also litle regard the death of you. With this (I say) or with some other like aunswere, if that either God, or humane charity, either the common sense of nature would expostulate with them, yea if there had bene a fire indeed (as they were more ⟨p. 1209⟩feared then hurt) who would haue doubted but that it had happened vnto them according to their deserts? But now worthy it is the noting, how the vayne feare and folly of those catholicks either was deluded, either how theyr cruelty was reproued, whereby they being better taught by theyr owne example, might herafter learne what is to put other poore men to the fire which they themselues here so much abhorred.