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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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Then spake Testwood:1 By my troth sir (quoth he) I think that was spoken but of malice, for prayer (as your mastership knoweth better then I) is one of the first lessons that Christ taught us. Yea marry sir, quoth he, but the heretics will have no invocation to saints, which all the old fathers do allow. What the old fathers do allow,2 quoth Testwood, I cannot tell, but Christ doth appoint us to go to his father, and to ask our petitions of him in Christs name. Then you will have no mean between you & god, quoth D. London. Yes sir, quoth Testwood, our mean is Christ, as S. Paul saith: There is one Mediator between god and man, even Jesus Christ. Give us water quoth D. London. Which being set on the board, he said grace and washed, & so falling into other communication with the strangers, the clerks took their leave and departed.
Then spake Testwood:1 By my troth sir (quoth he) I thinke that was spoken but of malice, for prayer (as your mastership knoweth better then I) is one of the first lessōs that Christ taught vs. Yea mary sir, quoth he, but the heretikes will haue no inuocation to saints, which all the olde fathers do allow. What the olde fathers do allowe,2 quoth Testwood, I cannot tel, but Christ doth appoint vs to goe to his father, and to aske our petitions of him in Christes name. Then you will haue no meane betwene you & god, quoth D. London. Yes sir, quoth Testwood, our mean is Christ, as S. Paul saith: There is one Mediator betwene god and man, euen Iesus Christ. Geue vs water quoth D. Londō. Which being set on the boorde, he said grace and washed, & so falling into other communication with the straungers, the clerkes tooke their leaue and departed.
- 1Testwood answereth for the Clerks.Testwood aunswereth for the Clerkes.
- 2Gospellers falsely slandered of the papists.