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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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¶The Letter of Master Latimer written to King Henry, for the restoring again the free liberty of reading the holy Scriptures.
¶The Letter of Mayster Latimer written to King Henry, for the restoring agayne the free liberty of reading the holy Scriptures.
❧To the most mighty Prince King of England Henry the eight, Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father by our Lord Jesus Christ.
❧To the most mighty Prince King of England Henrye the eight, Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father by our Lord Iesus Christ.
1The holy Doctor Saint Austin in an Epistle which he wrote to Casulanus saith that he which for fear of any power hideth the trueth, provoketh the wrath of God to come upon him: for he feareth men more then God. And according to the same, the holy man Saint John Chrysostom saith: that he is not alonely a traitor to the truth, which openly for truth teacheth a lie, but he also which doth not freely pronounce and show the trueth that he knoweth. These sentences (most redoubted King) when I read now of late, and marked them earnestly in the inward parts of mine hart, they made me sore afraid, troubled and vexed me grievously in my conscience, and at the last drove me to this strait,