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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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Where is then thou most presumptuous and shameless Bull, thy doltish respective now become? whether respectedst thou? Verily into the bottomless pit of impiety, and thine own brutish stolidity. The like also is to be said touching the Articles offensive, which must be neither slanderous, neither erroneous, nor heretical, seeing they are distincted by such great Rabbins. Who will not now marvel at the deep & profound wisdom of these Papists, which could find out that to be offensive in the Church, which is neither false, neither heretical nor slanderous, but true, sound, Catholic and edifying, and yet must that also be condemned? And who would not now desire & covet to be condemned ⟨p. 1286⟩also of such harebrained Idiots, who by their own condemning do utter themselves to approve things damnable, and to condemn things justifiable, that is, which openly show themselves, to their own great ignominy and shame, to be more senseless then stocks, rocks, or blocks. Go ye now therefore, O ye impious and brainless Papists, and if ye will needs write: show your selves more sober: for this Bull (it appeareth) was spued out in your night feasts amongst other drabs and harlots, or else huddled up in the Canicular days or mad midsummer Moon: For never were there any dizzards that would show them selves so mad. Let us now return this dirt of Antichrist, and cast it in his own teethe, and of his own words let us judge him and condemn him,1 that hereafter he may learn to take better heed, and be better advised in his lying. For as the Proverb saith, a liar had need to have a good memory. If some Articles be offensive, and other heretical, and thou condemnest him which is no heretic, and consequently a true Catholic, although he be six hundred times offensive. Doth not thy shameless mouth then condemn thy self, not only of heresy, but of extreme impiety, blasphemy and treason against Gods holy trueth, showing thy self to be the man in deed which is the adversary, and is extolled above all that which is called God, or is worshipped? Art not thou then the man of sin, and the son of perdition,2 which denieth God his redeemer, and taketh away the love of trueth, to stablish the setting forth of his error, for men to believe iniquity, as Paul foretold?
Where is then thou most presumptuous and shameles Bull, thy doltish respectiue nowe become? whether respectedst thou? Uerily into the bottomles pit of impiety, and thine owne brutish stoliditie. The like also is to be sayd touching the Articles offensiue, which must be neyther slaunderous, neyther erroneous, nor hereticall, seyng they are distincted by such great Rabbines. Who wyll not now maruell at the depe & profound wisedome of these Papistes, which could finde out that to be offensiue in the Church, which is neyther false, neyther hereticall nor slaunderous, but true, sound, Catholike and edifieng, and yet must that also be condemned? And who would not now desire & couet to be condemned