A67926:4902
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Read the place of Tind. What buildest thou Churches, foundest Abbeys, Chantries, & Colleges in the honour of Saints, to my mother, S. Peter, Paul,1 and Saints that be dead, to make of them thy friends? They need it ⟨p. 1248⟩not: yea they be not thy friends. Thy friends are thy poor neighbours,2 which need thy help and succour. Then make thy friends with the unrighteous Mammon, that they may testify of thy faith, and that thou mayest know and feel that thy faith is right, and not feigned, &c.
Read the place of Tind. What buildest thou Churches, foundest Abbeys, Chauntreis, & Colledges in the honour of Saintes, to my mother, S. Peter, Paule,1 and Saintes that be deade, to make of them thy friendes? They neede it ⟨p. 1248⟩not: yea they be not thy friends. Thy friends are thy poore neighbours,