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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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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,2 that either I must show forth such things as I have read and learned in Scripture, or else to be of the sort that provoke the wrath of GOD upon them, and be traitors unto the trueth: the which thing rather then it should happen, I had rather suffer extreme punishment.
1THe holy Doctour Saynt Austine in an Epistle whiche he wrote to Casulanus sayth that he whiche for feare of any power hideth the trueth, prouoketh the wrath of God to come vpon him: for he feareth men more then God. And according to the same, the holy man Saynt Iohn Chrisostome sayth: that he is not alonely a traytour to the truth, which opēly for truth teacheth a lie, but he also which doth not freely pronounce and shewe the trueth that he knoweth. These sentences (moste redoubted Kyng) when I read nowe of late, and marked them earnestlye in the inward partes of mine hart, they made me sore afrayd, troubled and vexed me grieuously in my conscience, and at the last droue me to this strayt,2 that either I must shewe forth such thinges as I haue read and learned in Scripture, or elles to be of the sort that prouoke the wrath of GOD vpon them, and be traitors vnto the trueth: the which thing rather then it shoulde happen, I had rather suffer extreme punishment.
- 1An other ••tter of M. latimer to •. Henry. August. ad Caulaū Chrisost.