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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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The fifth cause to move them is, that they should well advise & consider the end,1 whereunto all these Lutherians do tend: *which is, that under the shadow of Evangelical liberty, they may abolish all superiority and power▪ For although at the first beginning they pretended only to annul and repress our power ecclesiastical, as being falsely & tyrannously usurped against the Gospel: yet for as much as liberty is all their foundation and pretence, by the which liberty the secular power and magistrates can not bind men by any commandments (be they never so just, or so reasonable) *to obey them under pain of mortal sin: it is manifest that their scope is to enfeeble and infringe as much or more, the secular state also, although covertly they pretend to salve it: to the end, that when the secular Princes shall believe this their working not to be directed against them, but only against the usurped domination of the church and churchmen, then the laity (which commonly hath been always against men of the Church) holding with them, shall suffer the Churchmen to be devoured: Which done, no doubt, but *they will afterward practise the like upon the secular Princes and potestates, which now they attempt against our ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
The fift cause to moue them is, that they should wel aduise & consider the end,1 whereunto all these Lutherians do tēd: *which is, that vnder the shadow of Euangelicall liberty, they may abolish all superiority and power▪ For although at the first beginning they pretended onely to adnul and represse our power ecclesiasticall, as being falsely & tyrannously vsurped agaynst the Gospell: yet for as much as liberty is all theyr foundation and pretence, by the which liberty the seculer power and magistrates can not binde men by any commaundementes (be they neuer so iust, or so reasonable)