A67926:4969
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
1The words in the obedience be these. There is a word called in Latin Sacerdos, in Greek [Greek or Hebrew], in Hebrew Cohan, that is,2 a Minister, an Officer, a Sacrificer, or a Priest, as Aaron was a priest and sacrificed for the people, and was a mediator between God and them, and in the English it should have had some other name then Priest. But Antichrist hath deceived us with unknown and strange terms to bring us into confusion and superstitious blindness.3 Of that manner is Christ a priest for ever, and all we are Priests through him, and need no more of any such priest to be a mean for us unto God. &c.
1The words in the obedience be these. There is a worde called in Latin Sacerdos, in Greeke 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in Hebrue Cohā, that is,2 a Minister, an Officer, a Sacrificer, or a Priest, as Aaron was a priest and sacrificed for the people, and was a mediatour betweene God and them, and in the English it should haue had some other name then Priest. But Antichrist hath deceiued vs with vnknown and strange terms to bring vs into confusion and superstitious blindnes.