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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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Thirdly, he asked me wherefore I said that I had rather to read five lines in the Bible, then to hear 5. Masses in the temple? I confessed, that I said no less: not for the dispraise of either the epistle or the Gospel, but because the one ⟨p. 1235⟩did greatly edify me, and the other nothing at all. As S. Paul doth witness in the 14. chap. of his first epistle to the Cor. where as he saith.1 I• the trumpet giveth an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself to the battle?
Thirstly, he asked me wherefore I sayde that I had rather to read fiue lines in the Bible, then to heare 5. Masses in the temple? I confessed, that I sayd no lesse: not for the disprayse of either ye epistle or the Gospel, but because ye one ⟨p. 1235⟩did greatly edify me, and the other nothing at all. As S. Paul doth witnes in the 14. chap. of his first epistle to the Cor. where as he sayth.1 I• the trumpet geueth an vncertayne sound, who will prepare himselfe to the battell?
Fourthly: he said unto my charge that I should say: if an ill priest ministered,1 it was the devil and not God.
Fourthly: he sayd vnto my charge that I should say: if an ill priest ministred,