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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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And I pray you what meaneth your friends by a Christian Congregation? All those (trow ye) that have been christened? But many of those been in worse condition and shall have greater dā nation, then many unchristened. For it is not enough to a christian Congregation that is of God, to have been Christened: but it is to be considered what we promise when we be christened, to renounce Satan, his works, his pomps: Which thing if we busy not our self to do, let us not crake that we profess Christs name in a Christian Congregation, in uno baptismo. i. in one baptism.
And I pray you what meaneth your frendes by a Christian Congregation? All those (trow ye) that haue bene christened? But many of those bene in worse condition and shal haue greater dā nation, then many vnchristened. For it is not enough to a christian Congregation that is of God, to haue bene Christened: but it is to be considered what we promise when we be christened, to renounce Sathan, his woorkes, his pompes: Whiche thing if we busye not our selfe to doe, let vs not crake that wee professe Christes name in a Christian Congregation, in vno baptismo. i. in one baptisme.
And where they add in uno Domino. i. in one Lord, I read in Math. 17. non omnis qui dicit Domine, Domine. &c. •. Not every one that saith Lord, Lord. &c. And in Luke the Lord himself complaineth and rebuketh such professors and confessors,1 saying to them: Cur dicitis domine, domine, & non facitis quae dico? i. Why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not that I bid you? even as though it were enough to a Christian man, or to a Christian Congregation to say every day, Domine Dominus noster, and to salute Christ with a double Domine. But I would your friends would take the pains to read over Chrysostom super Mathaeum,2 hom. 49. cap. 24. to learn to know a Christian Congregation, if it will please them to learn at him. And where they add, in una fide. i. in one faith, S. James saith boldly: ostende mihi fidem ex operibus. i. show me thy faith by thy works. And S. Hierome: Si tamen credimus, inquit, opere veritatem ostendimus.