A67926:5254
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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It is plainly manifest by lawful proves, that the said John Borthwike had and presently hath, divers books suspected of heresy, condemned as well by the papal, as also Regal and ordinary authority, and prohibited by the law, that is to say, specially the new Testament commonly printed in English, Oecolampadius, Melancton, and divers treatises of Erasmus, and other condemned heretics, also a Book entitled, unio dissidentium, the which containeth most manifest and great errors, and heretical assumptions, and hath red and studied the same as well openly as privately, and hath presented and communicated them unto others, and also hath instructed and taught many Christians in the same, to the end and purpose, to divert and turn them away from the true christian and catholic faith.
It is plainly manifest by lawfull prooues, that the said Iohn Borthwike had and presently hath, diuers bookes suspected of heresie, condemned as wel by the papall, as also Regall and ordinary authoritie, and prohibited by the lawe, that is to say, specially the newe Testament commonly printed in Englishe, Oecolampadius, Melancton, and diuers treatises of Erasmus, and other condemned heretickes, also a Booke intituled, vnio dissidentium, the which conteyneth most manifest and great erroures, and hereticall assumptions, and hath red and studied the same as well openly as priuately, and hath presented and communicated them vnto others, and also hath instructed and taught many Christians in the same, to the ende and purpose, to diuert and turne them away from the true christian and catholike fayth.