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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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Hier. Card. de Genituris. A Derant enim illi gratiae. Linguas enim multas adhuc puer cal•eba•: Anglicam natalem, Latinam, Gallicam, non expers (ut audio) Graecae, 1Italicae, & hispanicae, & forsan aliarum. Propriā, Gallicam & Latinā exactè tenebat, & ad omnia docilis erat. Non illi dialectica deerat, non naturalis Philosophiae principia, non Musica. Humanitas mortalitatis nostrae imago, gravitas Regiae maiestatis, indoles tanto principe digna. In universum magno miraculo humanarum rerum, tanti i•genij & tantae expectationis puer educabatur. Non haec Rhetoricè exornata veritatem exedunt, sed sunt minora. Decimum quintum adhuc agebat annum. Interrogabat (Latinè non minus quam ego politè & promptè loquebatur) quid continent libri tui de rerum varietate? hos enim nomini Maiestatis suae dedicaveram. Tum ego Cometarum primum causam diu frustra, quaesitam▪ in primo capite ostendo. Quae nam inquit ille? Concursus, ego aio, luminis erraticorum syderum. At Rex, quomodo, cum diversis motibus astra moveantur, non statim dissipaturaut movetur eorum motu. At ego, movetur equidem, sed lō ge celefius illis ob diversitatem aspectus, velut in Cristallo & sole cum iris in pariete relucet. Parua enim mutatio magnam facit loci differentiā. At Rex, & quonam pacto absque subiecto illud fieri potest iridi enim paries subiectū est? Tum ego, velut in lactea […], & luminum reflectione, cum plures candelae propè accensae medium quoddam lucidum & candidum efficiunt. Itaque ex ungue Leonem, ut dici solet. Fuit hic in maxima omnium aut bonorum aut eruditorum expectation ob ingenuitatem atque suavitatem morum. Prius caeperat favere artibus quam nosceret, & noscere antequam uti posset. Conatus quidam humanae conditionis, quē non solum Anglia, sed orbis ereptum immaturè deflere debet. O quam benè dixerat ille. Immodicis brevis est aetas & rara senectus. Specimen virtutis exhibere potuit, non exemplum. Ubi gravit•s Regia requirebatur, senem vidisses: ut blandus erat & comis, aetatem referebat. Cheli pulsabat, publicis negotijs admovebatur, leberalis animo, atque in his patrem emulabatur. &c. Haec Cardanus. ¶The same in English. There was in him a towardly disposition & pregnancy apt to all human literature:
Hier. Card. de Genituris. A Derāt enim illi gratiae. Linguas enim multas adhuc puer caleba: Anglicam natalem, Latinam, Gallicam, non expers (vt audio) Graecae,