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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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4 Thou false heretic hast openly taught, 1that auricular confession is not a blessed sacrament. And thou sayest that we should only confess us to God, and to no priest.
4 Thou false heretike hast openly taught, 1that auriculare confession is not a blessed sacrament. And thou sayest that we should only confesse vs to God, and to no priest.
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My Lords, I say, that auricular confession,1 seeing that it hath no promise of the Evangel, therefore it can not be a Sacrament. Of the confession to be made to God,2 there are many testimonies in scripture, as when David saith: I thought I would knowledge mine iniquity against my self unto the Lord, and he forgave the punishment of my sin. Psal. 32 Here confession signifieth the secret knowledging of our sins before God. When I exhorted the people in this manner, I reproved no manner of confession. And farther S. James sayeth: Knowledge your faults one to an other, and pray one for an other, that you may be healed. 3When that he had said these words, the Bishops and their complices cried and grinned with their teeth, saying: See ye not what colours he hath in his speaking, that he may beguile us and seduce us to his opinion