A67927:1125
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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And such manner of arguments might well serve the Devil contra pusillanimes, to occasion them to wander and waver in the faith, and to be uncertain in things in which they ought to be certain: or else it may appear to make and serve against such preachers which will define great subtleties & high matters in the Pulpit, which no man can be certain and sure of by Gods word to be truth, ne sensus quidem habens ad discernendum bonum & malum exercitatissimos: as whether, if Adam had not sinned we should have had Stockfish out of Iceland: how many Larks for a penny if every Star in the element were a flickering Hobby: how many years a man shall lye in Purgatory for one sin if he buy not plenty of the oil that runneth over our lamps to slake the sin withal, and so forget hell which cannot be slaked, to provide for Purgatory.
And such manner of argumentes might well serue the Deuill contra pusillanimes, to occasion them to wander and wauer in the faythe, and to be vncertayne in thinges in whiche they ought to be certayne: or els it may appeare to make and serue agaynst such preachers which wil define great subtleties & high matters in the Pulpit, whiche no man can be certayne and sure of by Gods worde to be truth, ne sensus quidem habens ad discernendum bonum & malum exercitatissimos: as whether, if Adam had not sinned we should haue had Stockefishe out of Iseland: howe many Larkes for a peny if euery Starre in the element were a flickering Hobby: how many yeres a man shall lye in Purgatory for one sinne if he buy not plenty of the oile that runneth ouer our lampes to slake the sinne withall, and so forget hel whiche cannot be slaked, to prouide for Purgatory.
Such argumentation (I say) might appear to make well against such Preachers, not against me, which simply and plainly utter true faith and fruits of the same, which be the good works of God, quae preparavit deus ut in eis ambularemus. i. which he hath prepared for us to walk in, every man to do the thing that pertaineth to his office and duty in his degree and calling, as the word of God appointeth, which thing a man may do with soberness, having sensus ad discernendum bonum & malum, vel mediocriter exercitatos. For it is but foolish humility, willingly to continue always infantulus in Christo & in infirmitate. i. an infant still in Christ, and in infirmity: in reproof of which it was said […] estis opus habentes lacte non solido cibo. For S. Paul saith not: Estote humiles, ut non capiatis. For though he would not that we should think arrogantly of our self, and above that that it becometh us to think of our self, but so to think of our self, ut simus sobrij ac modesty, yet he biddeth us so to think of our self, ut cuiue Deus partitus est mensuram fidei. i. as God hath distributed to every one the measure of faith. For he that may not with meekness think in himself what God hath done for him, and of himself as God hath done