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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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The place is this: Satan hated the Sacrament,1 and knew no way how to suppress & disannul it: Therefore he found this craft, that the sacrament which Christ did only ordain to nourish and stablish the faith of them that live, should be counted for a good work and sacrifice, & bought and sold: And so faith is suppressed, and this wholesome ministry is applied, not to the quick, but unto the dead, that is to say, neither to the quick, neither yet to the dead. O the incredible fury of God, &c.
The place is this: Sathan hated the Sacramente,1 and knew no way how to suppresse & disanull it: Therefore he found this craft, that the sacrament which Christ did onely ordeine to nourish and stablish the faith of them that liue, should be counted for a good worke and sacrifice, & bought and sold: And so faith is suppressed, and this holesome ministery is applied, not to the quicke, but vnto the dead, that is to say, neither to the quicke, neither yet to the dead. O the incredible fury of God, &c.
- 1The place •uche […] the Sacrament and is […] the Sacrament.The place •uche 〈…〉 the Sacrament and is 〈…〉 the Sacrament.
26 These signs (he speaketh of miracles and visions or apparitions) are not to the increase of the faith and Gospel, 1for they are rather against the faith and Gospel, and they are the operation of satan, and lying signs, fol. 49.