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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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but what followeth sic aiunt nos dicere, sic male loquuntur de nobis so they report us to say, saith saint Paul. So they speak evil of us: sed quorum damnatio justa est, but such, whose damnation is just saith he: and I think the damnation of all such that evil reporten preachers now a days, likewise just: for it is untruth now and then. Yea Christ himself was misreported, & falsely accused, both as touching his words and also as concerning the meaning of his words. First he said: destruite, that is to say, destroy you: they made it possum destruere, 1that is to say, I can destroy: he sayd templum hoc, this temple, they added manu factum, that is to say made with hand, to bring it to a contrary sense. So they both inverted his words, and also added unto his words, to alter his sentence: for he did mean of the temple of his body, and they wrest it to Solomons temple. Now I report me whether it be a just fame raised up, and dispersed after this manner.2 Nay verily, for there be three manner of persons which can make no credible information. First, adversaries, enemies: Second, ignorant & without judgement: Thirdly, susurrones, that is to say, whisperers, and blowers in mens ears, which will spew out in hudder mudder, more then they dare avow openly. The first will not, the second cannot, the third dare not: therefore relation of such is not credible, and therefore can make no fame lawful, nor occasion any indifferent Judge to make process against any man, nor it maketh no little matter what they be themselves that report of any man, neither well or evil, for it is a great commendation to be evil spoken of, of them that be naughty themselves, and to be commended of the same, is many times no little reproach. God send us once all grace to wish one to an other, and to speak well one upon an other. Me seems it were comely, for my Lord (if it were comely for me to say so) to be a preacher himself, having so great a cure as he hath, then to be a disquieter and a troubler of Preachers, and to preach nothing at all himself.
but what followeth sic aiunt nos dicere, sic male loquuntur de nobis so they report vs to say, sayth sainct Paule. So they speake euill of vs: sed quorum damnatio iusta est, but such, whose damnation is iust sayth he: and I thinke the damnation of al such that euill reporten preachers nowe a dayes, likewise iust: for it is vntruth nowe and then. Yea Christ himselfe was misreported, & falsely accused, both as touching his words and also as concerning the meaning of his wordes. First he sayd: destruite, that is to say, destroy you: they made it possum destruere,