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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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In primis, I Martin Luther, a Fryer Augustine, protest that I do reverence and follow the Church of Rome in all my sayings and doings, present, past, and to come:1 And if any thing have been or shall be said by me to the contrary, I count it, and will that it be counted and taken as though it had never been spoken. But because the Cardinal hath required at the commandment of the Pope three things of me to be observed:
In primis, I Martine Luther, a Fryer Augustine, protest that I do reuerence and followe the Church of Rome in all my sayinges and doings, present, past, and to come:1 And if any thing haue bene or shalbe said by me to the contrary, I count it, and will that it be counted and taken as though it had neuer beene spoken. But because the Cardinall hath required at the commaundement of the Pope three thinges of me to be obserued:
- 1Protestation of M. Luther before the Cardinal.Protestation of M. Luther before the Cardinall.
1 That I should return again to the knowledge of my self.
1 That I should returne againe to the knowledge of my selfe.
2 That I should beware of falling into the same again here after.