A67927:1127
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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For my life I trust in god that I neither have, neither (by gods grace) shall I, neither in soberness, nor yet in drunkenness affirm any trueth of my self, therewith intending to divide that unity of the Congregation of Christ, and the received trueth agreed upon by the holy Fathers of the Church consonant to the Scripture of God, though it be showed you never so often, that an opinion or manner of teaching, which causeth dissension in a Christian Congregation, is not of God, by the doctrine of Saint John in his Epistle where he sayth: Omnis qui confitetur Jesum Christum in carne, ex Deo est. i. Every one that confesseth Christ in the flesh,1 is of God. First not every thing whereupon followeth dissension, causeth dissension, as I would they that showed you that, would also show you, whether this opinion, that a man may not marry his brothers wife, be of God or of men, if it be of men, then as Gamaliel said, dissoluetur: if it be of God, as I think it is, and perchance your frendes also, quis potest dissoluere nisi qui videbitur Deo repugnare? i. Who can dissolve it but shall seem to repugn against God▪ And yet there be many not heathens, but in Christendom, that dissenteth from the same, which could bear full evil to hear said unto them: vos ex patre diabolo estis. So that such an opinion might seem to some to make a dissension in a Christian Congregation, saving that they may say perchance with more liberty then other, that an occasion is sometime taken and not given, which with their favour I might abuse for my defence, saving that, non omnibus licet in hac temporum iniquitate.
For my life I trust in god that I neither haue, neither (by gods grace) shall I, neither in sobernesse, nor yet in drunkennesse affirme any trueth of my selfe, therewith entending to diuide that vnity of the Congregation of Christ, and the receiued trueth agreed vpon by the holy Fathers of the Church consonant to the Scripture of God, though it be shewed you neuer so often, that an opinion or maner of teaching, whiche causeth dissention in a Christian Congregation, is not of God, by the doctrine of Saynt Iohn in his Epistle where he sayth: Omnis qui confitetur Iesum Christum in carne, ex Deo est. i. Euery one that confesseth Christ in the flesh,1 is of God. First not euery thing whereupon foloweth dissention, causeth dissention, as I woulde they that shewed you that, would also shew you, whether this opinion, that a man may not mary his brothers wife, be of God or of men, if it be of men, then as Gamaliell sayd, dissoluetur: if it bee of God, as I thinke it is, and perchaunce your frendes also, quis potest dissoluere nisi qui videbitur Deo repugnare? i. Who can dissolve it but shal seme to repugne against God And yet there be many not heathennes, but in Christendome, that dissenteth from the same, which could beare full euill to heare sayd vnto them: vos ex patre diabolo estis. So that such an opinion might seme to some to make a dissē tion in a Christian Congregation, sauing that they may saye perchaunce with more liberty then other, that an occasion is sometime taken and not geuen, which with theyr fauor I might abuse for my defence, sauing that, non omnibus licet in hac temporum iniquitate.