A67927:1029
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ave Maria.
Aue Maria.
As for the Ave Maria, who can think that I would deny it▪ I said it was an heavenly greeting or saluting of our blessed Lady,1 wherein the Angel Gabriel sent from the Father of heaven, did annunciate and show unto her the good will of God towards her, what he would with her and to what he had chosen her But I said, it was not properly a prayer, as the Pater noster,2 which our Saviour Christ himself made for a proper prayer, and bade us say it for a Prayer, not adding that we should say 10. or 20. Ave Maries, withal: and I denied not but that we may well say the Ave Maria also, but not so that we shall think that the Pater noster is not good, a whole and a perfect prayer, nor can not be well said without Ave Maria: so that I did not speak against well saying of it, but against superstitious saying of it, and of the Pater noster to: and yet I put a difference betwixt that, & that which Christ made to be said for a prayer. &c.
As for the Aue Maria, who can thinke that I would deny it▪ I sayd it was an heauenly greting or saluting of our blessed Lady,1 wherein the Aungell Gabriell sent from the Father of heauen, did annunciate and shewe vnto her the good will of God towardes her, what he would with her and to what he had chosen her But I sayd, it was not properly a prayer, as the Pater noster,