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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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For the respect thereof is to greedy covetousness, and therefore I know that the probation thereof hath the like respect, which is this: if this article were true then men would give nothing for satisfaction and indulgences, neither should we have any more wherewith to vex them with confessions, cases reserved, restricted, or ampliated for our gain, and so should we become beggars, and gods service should be minished in Vigils and Masses. But it is wicked that Gods service should be minished: therefore Luther is an heretic: This consequent holdeth a respectu Bullae ad Papistas. 1. From the Bull to the papists and contrariwise. I beseech thee by the Lord Jesus, whatsoever grave & learned reader shalt read these things, that thou wilt pardon this my levity, and (as it may seem) my childishness. For thou seest how I have to do with such men as be twice children, and yet do brag themselves to be peers and principal pillars of all men. I assure you, I know it most certainly to be true, that there be many and great governors of people, which this so ridiculous and foolish reason above recited, hath moved to the condemnation of my books. Unless I perceived (with tears I speak it) the anger of God sharp and fierce against us, in bringing us under subjection of such effeminate children, and such dregs of the earth, and vile refuse of all other people of the whole world it would make •e to burst for very grief and sorrow. My sentence is, and hath been this, that that satisfaction which the keys are able to dispense withal, standeth not by the law of God. For if it did, then could it not be dispensed with all by the keys. If these Bull founders do charge me with any other thing besides in this article, they do nothing else but as they are wont to do. For what matter or marvel is it if Antichrist do lye? The 6. article. Contrition which is gotten by examining,1 remembering and detesting our sins, whereby a man calleth to mind his years past in the bitterness of his soul, in pondering the greatness, the multitude and filthiness of his sins, the loosing of eternal bliss, and purchasing of eternal damnation: this contrition maketh an hypocrite, yea rather a man to be more a sinner. The Answer. O the incredible blindness and brutishness of these Romish bulls.
For the respect thereof is to greedye couetousnesse, and therefore I know that the probation therof hath the like respecte, which is this: if this article wer true then men would geue nothing for satisfactiō and indulgences, neither should we haue any more wherewith to vexe them with confessiōs, cases reserued, restricted, or ampliated for our gayne, and so should we become beggers, and gods seruice shoulde be minished in Uigils and Masses. But it is wicked that Gods seruice shoulde be minished: therfore Luther is an hereticke: This consequent holdeth a respectu Bullae ad Papistas. 1. From the Bull to the papists and contrariwise. I beseech thee by the Lord Iesus, whatsoeuer graue & learned reader shalt read these thinges, that thou wilt pardon this my leuitie, and (as it may seeme) my childishnes. For thou seest how I haue to do with such mē as be twise children, and yet do brag themselues to be peeres and principall pillers of all men. I assure you, I know it most certaynly to be true, that there be many and great gouernors of people, whiche this so ridiculous and foolishe reason aboue recited, hath moued to ye condemnation of my books. Unlesse I perceiued (with teares I speake it) the anger of God sharpe and fierce agaynst vs, in bringing vs vnder subiection of such effeminate children, and such dregs of the earth, and vile refuse of al other people of the whole world it would make e to burst for very griefe and sorrow. My sentence is, and hath bene this, that that satisfaction whiche the keyes are able to dispence withall, standeth not by the law of God. For if it did, then could it not be dispensed with all by the keyes. If these Bull founders doe charg me with any other thing besides in this article, they do nothing els but as they are wont to do. For what matter or marueile is it if Antichrist do lye? The 6. article. Contrition whiche is gotten by examining,