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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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Let us therefore now thank our heavenly father for revealing them unto us, and let us also pray him, that of his free mercies in his son Christ Jesus, he would (if it be to his glory) either turn and mollify all such harts, or else (for the peace and quietness of his Church) he would in his righteous judgement take them from us.
Let vs therefore now thanke our heauenly father for reuealing them vnto vs, and let vs also pray him, that of his free mercies in his sonne Christ Iesus, he would (if it be to his glory) eyther turne and mollifie all such harts, or else (for the peace and quietnes of his Church) he woulde in his righteous iudgement take them from vs.
About this time Richard Fitziames ended his life. After whose death,1 Cuthbert Tunstall (afterwards Bishop of Durham) succeeded in the Sea and Bishopric of London: who soon upon his first entry into the room, minding to follow rightly the footsteps of his predecessor, caused Edmund Spilman priest, Henry Chambers, John Higgins, and Thomas Eglestone, to be apprehended, and so to be examined upon sundry like Articles, as before are expressed, and in the end, either for fear of his cruelty, and the rigour of death,2 or else through hope of his flattering promises (such was their weakness) he compelled them to abjure and renounce their true professed faith touching the holy Sacrament of Christs body and blood: which was, that Christs corporal body was not in the sacrament, but in heaven, and that the Sacrament was a figure of his body, and not the body it self.
About this time Richard Fitziames ended his life. After whose death,1 Cutbert Tunstall (afterwards Byshop of Durham) succeeded in the Sea and Bishoprike of London: who soone vpon his first entrie into the roome, minding to follow rightly the footesteps of his predecessour, caused Edmund Spilman priest, Henry Chambers, Iohn Higgins, and Thomas Eglestone, to be apprehended, and so to be examined vpon sundry like Articles, as before are expressed, and in the end, either for feare of his crueltie, and the rigour of death,