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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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Fourthly, that he did not believe, that the very element of the water it self in Baptism, doth give grace.
Fourthly, that he did not beleue, that the very element of the water it selfe in Baptisme, doth geue grace.
Which four Articles, he utterly refused to recant. Then came unto him a certain Schoolmaster of S. Peters in the town of Munchen,1 saying: my friend George, doest thou not fear the death and punishment which thou must suffer? If thou were let go, wouldest thou return to thy wife and children? Whereunto he answered: If I were set at liberty, whither should I rather go, then to my Wife and well beloved children? Then said the Schoolmaster, revoke your former sentence and opinion,2 and you shall be set at liberty. Whereunto George answered: my wife and my children are so dearly beloved unto me, that they can not be bought from me, for all the riches and possessions of the Duke of Bavaria: but for the love of my Lord God I will willingly forsake them. When he was led unto the place of execution, the schoolmaster spake unto him again, in the middest of the market place, saying: good George, believe in the Sacrament of the altar:3 do not affirm it to be only a sign. Whereunto he answered: I believe this Sacrament to be a sign of the body of Jesus Christ, offered upon the Cross for us. Then said the Schoolmaster moreover, what doest thou mean,4 that thou doest so little esteem Baptism, knowing that Christ suffered himself to be Baptised in Jordan? Whereunto he answered, and showed what was the true use of Baptism, and what was the end why Christ was Baptised in Jordan, & how necessary it was that Christ should dye and suffer upon the Cross, wherein only standeth our salvation. The same Christ (said he) will I confess this day before the whole world: for he is my Saviour, and in him do I believe.