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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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yet is it no sin nor heresy for a man to hold contrary to them, namely in such things, which are not necessary to salvation, so long as it is not otherwise condemned or approved by a general Council. We have a way made plain unto us, to infringe the authority of Councils, and freely to gainestand their doings, and to judge upon their Decrees, and boldly to speak our knowledge whatsoever we judge to be true, whether the same be approved or reproved by any general Council. Some of the articles of John Hus condemned in the Council of Constance, are Christian, most true and Evangelical, whom the universal Church cannot condemn. In every good work the just man sinneth. *Every good work of ours, when it is best done, it is a venial sin. To burn heretics, is against the will of the spirit. *To fight against the Turks, is to repugn against God, visiting our iniquities by them. Freewill after sin, is a title and name only of a thing, and while a man doth that which lieth in him, he sinneth deadly. Purgatory cannot be proved out of holy scripture, which is Canonical. Souls in Purgatory be not certain of their safety, at lest not all, neither is it proved by reasons or by scriptures, that they be utterly out of the state to deserve, or increase charity. *Souls in Purgatory do sin without intermission, so long as they seek rest, and dread punishment. The souls being delivered out of Purgatory by the prayers of the living, be less blessed, then if they had satisfied for themselves. Ecclesiastical prelates & worldly princes should not do amiss, if they would scour away all the bags of begging Friars. All which errors there is no man in his right wits, but he knoweth the same in their several respects, how pestilent they be, how pernicious, how much they seduce godly and simple minds, and finally how much they be against all charity, and against the reverence of the holy Church of Rome, the mother of all faithful, and mistress of the faith it self, and against the sinews and strength of ecclesiastical discipline, which is obedience, the fountain and wellspring of all virtues, and without the which every man is to be convinced easily to be an Infidel.
yet is it no sinne nor heresie for a man to hold contrary to them, namely in such things, which are not necessary to saluation, so long as it is not otherwise condemned or approued by a generall Councell. We haue a way made playne vnto vs, to infringe the authoritie of Councels, and freely to gainestand their doyngs, and to iudge vpon their Decrees, and boldly to speake our knowledge whatsoeuer we iudge to be true, whether the same be approoued or reproued by any generall Councell. Some of the articles of Iohn Hus condemned in the Councell of Constance, are Christian, most true and Euangelicall, whome the vniuersall Church cannot condemne. In euery good worke the iust man sinneth.