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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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And how then cometh this, which I know to be most certain, that out of the bank (as they call it) two or three hum dreth crowns were assigned in Germany to be disposed and given to ruffians and catchpoles,1 to murder Luther: for these be the reasons & arguments, whereby now fighteth, reigneth and triumpheth the holy Apostolic sea, the mistress of faith & mother of all churches, that which long since should have been proved to be the very •eate of Antichrist, and manifold ways heretical, if she had fought with the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God: whereof she her self is nothing ignorant, & therefore because she would not be brought to that issue, thus she fareth and taketh on like as she were mad, in the Church of Christ, confounding and consuming all things with wars,2 murders, bloodshed, death, and destruction, and yet for all this they must needs be counted most holy fathers in God, & vicars of Christ, and Pastors of his flock. But go to (that I may also dally with them a while) let them, yet send me the money they speak of: for as touching their promise & safe conduct (because I will not overcharge them) that I gladly resign to them again, seeing I have no great need thereof, so that the money may come to my hands. But here I must require so much as may suffice me: to wit, that I may be furnished with fifty thousand footmen, and ten thousand horsemen, to conduct me safe to Rome, and so for any other promise of safe conduct I will not trouble them. And this I require, because of the danger that is in Rome,3 which devoureth up her inhabitants, neither keepeth, nor ever did keep promise with any: Where these most holy fathers do slay their beloved children in the charity of God, and brethren destroy their brethren to do service to Christ, as the manner is and stile of Rome. In the mean time I will keep my self free and sa•• from the Citation of this most reverend Bull. O ye miserable varlets, which are so confounded with the truth and with your own conscience, that neither ye can lie handsomely, neither dare ye speak the truth, and yet neither can ye so keep your selves quiet, to your perpetual ignominy and confusion. Furthermore, here in this Bull is brought in a strange fashion of stile, not heard of before.