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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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1After this Luther answered thus in Latin & in dutch, Two things are proponed unto me by the Imperial majesty. First, whether I will avouch for mine, all those books that bear my name: Secondly, whether I will maintain or revoke any thing that hitherto I have devised & published. Whereunto I will answer as briefly as I can,
1After this Luther answered thus in Latine & in dutch, Two things are proponed vnto me by the Emperial maiestie. First, whether I will auouche for mine, all those books yt beare my name: Secondly, whether I will maintayne or reuoke any thing that hytherto I haue deuised & published. Whereunto I wil answere as breifly as I can,
- 1M. Luthers answer.M. Luthers aunswere.
In the first, I can do none other then recognise those books to be mine,1 which lastly were named, & certainly I will never recant any clause thereof. In the second to declare whether I will wholly defend, or call back any thing comprised in them: forasmuch as there be questions of faith & the salvation of the soul (& this concerneth the word of God, which is the greatest & most excellent matter that can be in heaven or earth, & the which we ought duly evermore to reverence:) this might be accounted in me a rashness of judgement, & even a most dangerous attempt, I• I would pronounce any thing before I were better advised, considering I might recite something less then the matter importeth, and more then the truth requireth, if I did not premeditate the which I would speak. The which two things well considered doth set before mine eyes this sentence of our Lord Jesus Christ, wherein it is said: Whosoever shall deny me before men, I will deny him before my father. I require then for this cause and humbly beseech the Imperial majesty, to grant me liberty and leisure to deliberate,