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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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Further, God by his Prophet Jeremiah calleth it chaff, what so ever doth not proceed from himself. Wherefore, none of the Prophets have opened their mouths at any time to speak, but being premonished before by the word of GOD. Whereupon it happeneth, that these words are so often pronounced by them, The word of the Lord, The charge or burden of the Lord, The vision of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Further, God by his Prophet Ieremy calleth it chaffe, what so euer doth not proceede from hymselfe. Wherefore, none of the Prophetes haue opened theyr mouthes at any tyme to speake, but beyng premonished before by the worde of GOD. Whereupon it happeneth, that these wordes are so often pronounced by them, The worde of the Lord, The charge or burden of the Lord, The vision of the Lord, Thus sayth the Lord, The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Now that we may also confirm that which is before spoken, by the examples of the Apostles, that they have taught nothing but that which they have learned of the Lord, the law which Christ prescribed unto them, when as he endowed them with the dignity and honour of the Apostleship, is somewhat more profoundly to be repeated. In the last chapter of Matthew, he commandeth them to go forth and teach, not such things as they themselves did rashly invent or devise, but those things which he had commanded them.
Now that we may also confirme that which is before spoken, by the examples of the Apostles, that they haue taught nothyng but that whiche they haue learned of the Lorde, the law which Christ prescribed vnto them, when as he endowed them with the dignitie and honour of the Apostleship, is somewhat more profoundly to be repeated. In the last chapiter of Mathew, he commandeth them to go foorth and teach, not such thyngs as they themselues did rashly inuent or deuise, but those things which he had commaunded them.