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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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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.
Boner. Well, wilt thou neither hear them nor me?
Boner. Well, wilt thou neither heare them nor me?
Smith. Yes I am compelled to hear you: but ye can not compel me to follow you.
Smith. Yes I am compelled to heare you: but ye can not compell me to folow you.
Boner. Well, thou shalt be burned at a stake in smithfield if thou wilt not turn.
Boner. Well, thou shalt be burned at a stake in smithfield if thou wilt not turne.
Smith. 1And ye shall burn in hell, if ye repent not: but my Lord, to put you out of doubt, because I am weary, I will strain courtesy with you. I perceive ye will not with your Doctors come unto me, and I am not determined to come unto you, by Gods grace. For I have hardened my face against you as hard as brass. Then after many railing sentences I was sent away. And thus have I left the trueth of mine answers in writing (gentle Reader) being compelled by my friends to do it: that ye may see how the Lord hath according to his promise, given me a mouth and wisdom for to answer in his cause, for which I am condemned, and my cause not heard.