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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 › ¶The usual prayer of Martin Luther.Book 7 › ¶The vsuall prayer of Martin Luther.
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and to the other which being weary of all good order, do gape still for new changes, may breed matter and occasion of such mischiefs, as partly your selves have experienced already. And therefore do you not consider (O princes and people of Germany) that these be but prefaces & preambles to those evils and mischiefs, which Luther with the sect of his Lutherianes, do intend & purpose here after?* Do you not see plainly & perceive with your eyes, that this defending of the verity of the Gospel first begun by the Lutherians to be pretended, is now manifest to be but an invention to spoil your goods which they have long intended? Or do you think that these sons of iniquity do tend to any other thing, then under the name of liberty, to supplant obedience, and so to open a general *licence to every man, to do what him listeth? And suppose you, that they will any thing regard your commandments, or esteem *your laws, which so contemptuously vilipend the holy Canons, and decrees of the fathers, yea and the most holy Councils also (to whose authority the Emperors laws have always given room and place) & not only vilipend them, but also with a diabolical audacity have not feared to rent them in pieces, and set them on a light fire? They which refuse to render due obedience to priests, to bishops, yea to the high bishop of all, & which daily before your own faces make their booties of Church goods, and of things consecrated to God: think ye that they will refrain their sacrilegious hands from the spoil of lay mens goods? yea that they will not pluck from you whatsoever they can rap or reave?4 Finally to conclude, how can you hope that they will more spare you, or hold their murdering hands from your throats, which have been so bold to vex, to kill, to slay the Lords anointed, which are not to be touched? Nay think you not contrary, but this miserable calamity will at length redound upon you, your goods, your houses, wives, children, dominions, possessions, & these your temples, which you hallow & reverence, except you provide some speedy remedy against the same.
and to the other which being wery of all good order, do gape stil for new changes, may breed matter and occasion of such mischiefes, as partly your selues haue experienced already. And therfore do you not consider (O princes and people of Germany) that these be but prefaces & preambles to those euils and mischiefes, which Luther with the secte of his Lutherianes, do intend & purpose here after?