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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 2] 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 2] 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 third matter was, to pray for the preservation of the Queens Majesty, that now is,1 whom in his prayer he was wont accustomably to name, and even with tears desired God to make her a comfort to his comfortless realm of England. These were the matters he prayed for so earnestly. Neither were these things of him desired in vain, as the good success thereof after following did declare: for the Lord most graciously did grant all those his requests.
The third matter was, to pray for the preseruation of the Queenes Maiesty, that now is,1 whome in his prayer he was wont accustomably to name, and euen with teares desired God to make her a comfort to his comfortles realme of England. These were the matters he prayed for so earnestlye. Neither were these thinges of him desired in vayne, as the good successe thereof after following did declare: for the Lord most graciously did graunt all those his requestes.
- 1M. Latimers prayer for Q. Elizabeth▪
First concerning his constancy, even in the most extremity the Lord graciously assisted him.1 For when he stood at the stake without Bocardo gate at Oxford, and the tormentors about to set the fire to him, and to the learned and Godly Bishop Master Ridley, he lifted up his eyes towards heaven with an amiable and comfortable countenance, saying these words: Fidelis est Deus qui non sinit nos tentari supra id quod possumus: God is faithful, which doth not suffer us to be tempted above our strength: and so afterward by and by shed his blood in the cause of Christ, the which blood ran of his hart in such abundance that all those that were present, being godly, did marvel to see the most part of the blood in his body to be gathered to his hart, and with such violence to gush out, his body being opened by the force of the fire: by the which thing God most graciously granted his request, which was that he might shed his hart blood in the defence of the Gospel.