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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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Answer to the cavilling adversaries touching John Marbecke.
Aunswere to the cauilling aduersaries touching Iohn Marbecke.
Wherefore against these crooked cavillers, which make so much ado against my former book, because in a certain place I chanced to say that Bennett and Filmer had their pardon (when in deed it was Bennet and Marbecke) be it therefore known, protested, denounced,1 and notified, to all & singular such carpers, wranglers, exclamers, depravers, with the whole brood of all such whisperers, railers, quarrel-pickers, corner creepers, fault finders & spider-catchers, or by what name else so ever they are to be titled that here I openly say, affirm, profess, hold, maintain & write the same as I said & wrote before in the latter castigations of my book: that is, that John Marbecke was with the other condemned, but not burned, cast by the law but by pardon saved, appointed with the rest to die,2 & yet not dead, but liveth (God be praised) & yet to this present day singeth merely, and playeth on the Organs, not as a dead man, amongst Foxes martyrs (as it hath pleased some in the court to encounter against me) but as one witnessed & testified truly in the book of Foxes Martyrs to be a live. And therefore such manner of persons, if the disposition of their nature be such; that they must needs find faults, then let them find them where they are, and where those faults by their finding may be corrected. But whereas they be corrected already, & found to their hands, & also amended before, let then these legend liars look on their own legends, and there cry out of lies, where they may find enough, and cease their biting there, where they have no just cause to bark.
WHerefore against these crooked cauillers, which make so much ado against my former boke, because in a certaine place I chaunced to saye that Bennette and Filmer had their pardon (when in dede it was Bennet and Marbecke) be it therfore known, protested, denounced,