A67927:1135
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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Augustine could defend his saying, yet his saying might appear not to be of God, to some mens judgement, in that it breaketh the chain of Christs charity, so to cause men to hate Antichristianismum, Antichrists, according to the doctrine of S. Paul: sitis odio persequentes quod malum est. i. Hate that is evil: and so making division, not between christened and unchristened, but between Christians and Antichristians, when neither pen nor tongue can divide the Antichristians from their blind folly. And I would you would cause your friends to read over S. Austen, upon the Epistle of S. John, and tell you the meaning thereof, if they think it expedient for you to know it, as I remember it is tractatu. 3. but I am not sure nor certain of that, because I did not see it since I was at Cambridge: and here have I not S. Austins works to look for it: but well I wot, that there he teacheth us to know the Christians from the Antichristians, which both be christened, and both confesse Jesum esse Christum,1 if they be asked the question: and yet the one part denieth it in very deed: but to know whether, non linguam sed facta attendamus, & vivendi genus, nun studeamus officia vocationis praestare an non studeamus, immo persuasi forte sumus non necesse esse ut praestemus, sed omnia in primitivam ecclesiam & tempora praeterita. &c. quasi nobis sat sit dominari, & secula•ibus negotijs nos totos voluere, ac voluptatibus & pompae inhiare: and yet we will appeare, vel soli ex Deo esse: sed longe aliter Christum confitentur, qui confitendo ex Deo esse comprobantur.
Augusten coulde defende his saying, yet his saying might appeare not to bee of God, to some mens iudgement, in that it breaketh the chayne of Christes charity, so to cause men to hate Antichristianismum, Antichristes, according to the doctrine of S. Paule: sitis odio persequentes quod malum est. i. Hate that is euill: and so making diuision, not betwene christened and vnchristened, but betwene Christians and Antichristians, when neither penne nor toung can deuide the Antichristians from theyr blind folly. And I would you would cause your frends to read ouer S. Austen, vpon the Epistle of S. Iohn, and tell you the meaning thereof, if they thinke it expedient for you to know it, as I remember it is tractatu. 3. but I am not sure nor certaine of that, because I did not see it since I was at Cambridge: and here haue I not S. Austins workes to looke for it: but well I wot, that there he teacheth vs to know the Christians frō the Antichristians, which both be christened, and both confesse Iesum esse Christum,