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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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I deny your argument by your leave: yea if it be by faith, as ye say, it is muche sure, quia certitudo fidei est maxima certitudo as Duns and other school Doctors say: that there is a great discrepance between certain knowledge,1 and clear knowledge: for that may be of things absent that appear not, this requireth the presence of the object,2 I mean of the thing known so that I certainly and surely know the thing which I perfectly believe, though I do not clearly and evidently know it. I know your school subtleties, as well as you, which […] as though enigmatical knowledge, that is to say, dark and obscure knowledge might not be certain and sure knowledge because it is not clear, manifest and evident knowledge: and yet there hath been (they say) qui zelum Dei habuerunt, sed non secundum scientiam, which have had a zeal, but not after knowledge. Truth it is, there hath been such, and yet be to many to the great hinderance of Christs glory, which nothing doth more obscure, then an hot zeal accompanied with great authority without right judgement. There have bene also, Qui scientiam habuerunt absque zelo Dei, qui vivitatem Dei in iniustitia detinentes plagis vapulabunt multis, dum voluntatem Domini cognoscentes, nihil minus quàm, faciunt, I mean not among Turks and Saracens that be unchristened, but of them that be christened▪ and there have been also that have lost scientiam Dei, id est, spiritualem divini verbi sensum, quam prius habuerunt. i. The spiritual knowledge of Gods word which they had before, because they have not ensued after it, nor promoted the same, but rather with their mother wits have impugned the wisdom of the father, and hindered the knowledge thereof, which therefore hath been taken away from them, ut justificetur Christus in sermonibus suis, & vincat cum judicatur, threatning Math. 13. Ei vero, qui non habet, etiam quod habet, id est, quod videtur habere, auferetur ab eo, cum abuti habito, vel non bene uti, sit non habere, nec non sit verum illud quoue, non habitaturam, videlicet sapientiam in corpore peccatis subdito, qui adhuc & si carnaliter sapiant plus satis, at stat, sententia, nem••e carnalem & Philosophicam scripturarum intelligentiam, non esse sapientiam Dei, quae à sapientibus absconditur, paruulis revelatur.