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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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Which worketh us so much the more grief, for that those heresies be sprung in the noble nation of the Germans, unto the which nation we with our predecessors, have always borne special favour and affection. For after the Empire was first translated by the Church of Rome, from the Greeks unto the Germans, the said our predecessors and we, have always had them as special fautors & defenders of this our Church, and they have always showed themselves as most earnest suppressors of heresies: as witness whereof remain yet those laudable constitutions of the Germane Emperors, set forth and confirmed by our predecessors, for the liberty of the Church, and for expulsing heretics out of all Germany, and that under grievous penalty and loss of all their goods and lands. Which constitutions, if they were observed this present day both we and they should now be free from this disturbance. 1Furthermore, the heresy of the Hussites, Wiclevistes, & of Hierome of Prague, being condemned and punished in the Council of Constance, doth witness the same. Moreover doth witness the same, so much blood of the Germans spilt fighting against the Bohemians. To conclude, the same also is confirmed & witnessed by the learned & true confutation, reprobation and condemnation set forth by the Universities of Cologne and Lovane in Germany against the foresaid errors. Many other witnesses also we might allege, which here, least we should seem to write a story, we preterm••. Wherefore we for the charge of our Pastoral office committed unto us, can no longer forbear or wink at the pestiferous poison of the foresaid errors: of the which errors we thought here good to recite certain. The tenor of which is this, as followeth. It is an old heresy to say, 2that the Sacraments of the new […] doth give grace to them, qui non ponunt obicem. i. which have in themselves to the contrary, no let. In a child after his Baptism, to deny that sin remaineth, is to tread down Paul and Christ under foot. The origene of sin, although no actual sin do follow •fter, doth stay the soul leaving the body, from the entrance into heaven. Unperfect charity of a man departing, must needs bring with it great fear, which of it self is enough to deserve the pain of Purgatory, and stoppeth the entrance into the kingdom of heaven.