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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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*A brief digression touching the railing of Hubberdin against M. Latimer.
*A briefe digression touching the rayling of Hubberdin agaynst M. Latimer.
Forasmuch as mention hath been made in this letter of Hubberdin, an old Divine of Oxford,1 a right painted Pharisee, and a great strayer abroad in all quarters of the realm to deface and impeach the springing of Gods holy Gospel, something would be added more touching that man, whose doings and pageants if they might be described at large, it were as good as any Interlude for the Reader to behold. Who in all his life and in all his actions (in one word to describe him) seemeth nothing else but a right Image or counterfeit,2 setting out unto us in lively colours the pattern of perfect hypocrisy. But because the man is now gone, to spare therefore the dead (although he little deserved to be spared, which never spared to work what villainy he could against the true servants of the Lord) this shall be enough for example sake, for all Christian men necessarily to observe, how the said Hubberdin after his long railing in all places against Luther, Melanchthon, Zuinglius, John Frith, Tyndale, Latimer, and all other like Professors,3 after his hypocritical open alms given out of other mens purses, his long prayers, pretensed devotions, devout fastings, his woolward going, and other his prodigious demeanour, riding in his long Gown down to the Horse heels like ⟨p. 1743⟩a Pharisee, or rather like a sloven, dirted up to the Horse belly, after his forged Tales and Fables, Dialogues, dreams, dancings, hoppings and leapinges, with other like histrionical toys and gestures used in the Pulpit, and all against heretics: at last riding by a Church side where the youth of the Parish were dancing in the Churchyard, suddenly this Silenus lighting from his horse, by occasion of their dancing came into the Church, and there causing the bell to tolle in the people, thought in stead of a fit of mirth, to give them a Sermon of dancing.