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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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¶The answer of M. Latimer to the letter of Sir Edward Baynton above prefixed.
¶The aunswere of M. Latimer to the letter of Syr Edward Baynton aboue prefixed.
Right worshipful sir, and my singular good master,1 salutem in Christ Jesus, with due commendation and also thanks for your great goodness towards me &c. And whereas you have ⟨p. 1749⟩communicate my last letters to certain of your friends, which rather desire this or that in me &c. what I think therein I will not now say, not for that there could be any peril or danger in the said letters (well taken) as far as I can judge, but for that they were rashly and undevisedly scribbled, as ye might well know both by my excuse, and by themselves also, though none excuse had been made. And besides that, ye know right well, that whereas the Bee gathereth honey,2 even there the spinner gathereth venom, not for any diversity of the flower, but for divers natures in them that sucketh the flower: As in times past, and in the beginning, the very truth: and one thing in it self was to some,3 offence, to some foolishness, to other otherwise disposed, the wisdom of God. Such diversity was in the redress of hearers thereof.
RIght worshypfull sir, and my singular good mayster,1 salutem in Christe Iesu, with due commendation and also thankes for your great goodnes towardes me &c. And whereas you haue ⟨p. 1749⟩communicate my last letters to certayne of your frendes, whiche rather desire this or that in me &c. what I thinke therein I wyll not now say, not for that there could be any perill or daunger in the sayd letters (well taken) as farre as I can iudge, but for that they were rashely and vndeuisedly scribled, as yee might well know both by my excuse, and by themselues also, thoughe none excuse had bene made. And besides that, ye know right wel, that wheras the Bee gathereth honey,