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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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My Lords, I find that fasting is commended in the Scripture: therefore I were a slanderer of the Gospel, if I contemned fasting. And not so only,1 but I have learned by experience, that fasting is good for the health of the body: but God knoweth who fasteth the true fast.
My Lordes, I finde that fasting is commended in the Scrypture: therefore I were a sclaunderer of the Gospell, if I contemned fastynge. And not so onely,1 but I haue learned by experience, that fastinge is good for the health of the bodye: but God knoweth who fasteth the true fast.
- 1Answer. True fasting he alloweth.Answeare. True fasting he alloweth.
18 Thou false heretic haste preached openly, 1saying that ⟨p. 1271⟩the soul of man shall sleep to the latter day of judgement, and shall not obtain life immortal until that day.
18 Thou false heretike haste preached openlye, 1sayinge that ⟨p. 1271⟩the soule of man shall sleepe to the latter daye of iudgement, and shall not obtaine life immortall vntill that day.
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