A67927:1075
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.
¶Gulielmus Sherwodus praesbyter, D. Latymero Kyngtoniae, Rectori, gratiam & pacem à Deo patre nostro & domino Jesu Christo.
¶Gulielmus Sherwodus praesbyter, D. Latymero Kyngtoniae, Rectori, gratiam & pacem à Deo patre nostro & domino Iesu Christo.
NIhil molestè feres sat scio, vir egregiè, ab homine Christiano christiané admoneri, quae res una (est Deus testis) nos hoc tempore animavit liberius tecum per literas (quando corā fandi copia negatur) confabulari supernonnullis, quae parum christiané in concione illa tua (sit modo concio & non verius multo Satyra quaedam insana dicenda) Magnesfeldiae effudisse mihi videbare. Ac primum quidem proverbio illo de fure & pastore (quanquam proverbij vocem parabolae vice mihi usurpasse videtur Evangelista) carpsit, ut recte & vere aiebas, Christus Scribarum & pharisaeorum (utpote deus,1 eoque [Greek or Hebrew]) vesaniam obduratamque incredulitatem, sed clam, sed tecté, sed in genere. Non aiebat, scribae & pharisaei ad unum fures sunt & latrones. Sed quid? Amen dico vobis qui non intrat per ostium in stabulum ovium, sed ascendit aliunde, ille fur est & latro. Tu contra homo patentium intuitor non mentium rimator. Episcopi omnes, papae omnes, Rectores ecclesiarum omnes (te uno paucisque alijs, quos nescio tuae fa•inae hominibus, id enim sensisse videris, exceptis) vicarij omnes fures sunt, & latrones, quibus furibus, quibus latronibus suffocandis ne Angliae totius quidem canapū sufficere predicabas, aut verius dementabas, hyperbole forsan, ut semper usus, sed temeraria, sed audaci supra modum, sed truci, sed impia. Non est mi frater, non est sic temeré, si divo credimus Paulo, ante tempus judicandum, quod veniat Dominus qui & illuminabit abscondita tenebrarum, & manifestabit consilia cordium, Christus quoque ipse, judex vivorum & mortuorum, à deo patre constitutus temerariam eiusmodi proximi condemnationem apud Matthaeum, Christiano homini mihi sustulisse videtur, quum inquit: Nolite condemnare, ne condemnemini, nec tanti flagitij subticens poenam. Quo enim (inquit) judicio judicatis eo judicabitur de vobis, & qua mensura metimini, ea metientur vobis & alij. Volo hominum vitia taxari, volo sua scelera populo praedicari, annunciari, revelari, & si fieri possit, ob oculos pony, no debacchari in homines, eosque absentes, non poni lucem tenebras, & tenebras lucem, non dici bonum malum, & malum bonum, dulce amarum, & amarum dulce. Quod si fit, verendum ne dumb alius alium mordemus & devoramus, vicissim alius ab alio consumemur. An ista partius, imo modestius viris obijcienda, ipse videto. Novimus, & qui te transuersa tuentibus hirquis, & quo: