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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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2 The water of Baptism lieth not in hallowed water or in other outward thing, but only in faith. fol. 6.
2 The water of Baptisme lyeth not in halowed water or in other outward thing, but onely in fayth. fol. 6.
The place of these two articles gathered out of the sum of the Scripture is this.1 The water of Baptism taketh not away our sin: for then were it a precious water, and then it behoved us daily to wash our selves therein.2 Neither hath the water of the Fount more virtue in it self, than the water that runneth in the river of Rhene. When Philip baptised the Eunuch, the servant of Candace, the Queen of Ethiop, there was then no hallowed water, nor candle, nor salt nor cream, neither white habit:3 but he baptised him in the first water they came to upon the way. Here mayst thou perceive that the virtue of Baptism lieth not in hallowed water, or in the outward things that we have at the Fount, but in the faith only. &c. Christ hath healed us (saith S. Paul by the bath of regeneration and renovation of the holy Ghost.