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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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Book 7 › Letter: ¶ The Emperors letter.Book 7 › Letter: ¶ The Emperours letter.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here he added something of the noon devil, and of the spirit coming in the dark,1 and of the flying arrow. All his oration was exhortatory, full of Rhetorical places of honesty, of utility, of laws, of the dangers of conscience, and of the common particular wealth, repeating offer this sentence in the proheme, middle, and epilogue of his oration: that this admonition was given him of a singular good will, and great clemency. In the shutting up of his oration, he added manacinges, saying: that if he would abide in his purposed intent, the Emperor would proceed further, and banish him from the Empire, persuading him deliberately to ponder, and to advise these and other things.
Here he added something of the noone deuil, and of the spirite comming in the darcke,1 and of the flying arrow. All his oration was exhortatory, full of Rhetoricall places of honesty, of vtility, of lawes, of the daungers of conscience, and of the common particular wealth, repeating ofre this sentence in the proheme, midle, and epilogue of his oratiō: that this admonition was geuen him of a singulare good will, and great clemency. In the shutting vp of his oration, he added manacinges, saying: that if he would abide in his purposed intent, the Emperour woulde proceede further, and banish him from the Empyre, perswading hym deliberately to ponder, and to aduise these and other thinges.
- 1Psal. 90.
Martin Luther answered, Most noble Princes, and my most gracious Lords,1 I render most humble thanks for your benignities and singular good wills, whence proceedeth this admonition: For I know my self to be so base, as by no means I can deserve to be admonished of so mighty estates.