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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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If any thing be revealed to an other that sitteth by, let the first man hold his peace. Here have ye ⟨p. 1288⟩plainly that Pope or any other elder, what so ever he be, ought to keep silence, if any thing be revealed to other in the Church, that is inferior. I therefore upon his authority contemning the presumptuous proceeding of this swelling Bull, do confidently take upon me to defend the Articles, caring nothing for the bare condemnation of any person, yea of the Pope him self with his whole Church, unless he shall inform me by the Scriptures. Whereof the first Article is this. The Article. 1It is an heretical sentence, and also common to say, that Sacraments of the new law do give grace to them, which have no obstacle in themselves to the contrary. The Answer. I acknowledge this Article to be mine, and I ask of you good masters Respectivistes, which make these Articles respectively,2 some to be heretical, some erroneous, some slanderous, &c. whether respecteth this article I pray you? To heresy, to error, to slander and offence? Or else whether respected you in condemning the same? To the holy scripture? to the holy fathers? to faith? to the church? To which of these I beseech you tell me. Neither do I here put you to the labour of proving, but only require you to show your judgement what you think, that I may know wherein I say amiss. Will you that I should tell you (you babish infants and noddies) whether this Article respecteth? I will. This article hath ij. respects. Whereof the one respecteth the Papists the condemners hereof, amongst whom it respecteth some to be mules, some to be horses, which have no understanding and be void of all sense, and yet notwithstanding they will needs condemn all things. An other respect it hath to the holy Scripture, which saith. Rom. 14. What so ever is not of faith, is sin. Whereupon consequently it followeth that the Sacraments or the new law can give no grace to the unbelievers (for so much as the sin of infidelity is the greatest obstacle) but only to the believers. For only faith putteth no obstacle: all other things be obstacles, although they put not the same obstacles which the Sophisters understand, meaning only of the actual purpose of external sin. I confess therefore this article not only to be mine, but also to be the article of the Catholic and Christian verity: