A67927:1171
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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Ah Sir? I see well I may say as the common saying is: Well have I fished and caught a Frog: brought little to pass with much ado. You will not bear it with me, you say. Why sir, what will ye do with me? You will not fight with me, I trow. It may seem unseemly for a Justice of peace to be a breaker of peace. I am glad the doting time of my foolish youth is gone and paste? What will you then do with me, in that you say you will not bear it at my hand? What hath my hand offended you? Perchance you will convent me before some Judge,1 and call me into some court. Deus bene vertat. Equidem non recuso judicium ullum, Accusemus inuicem, ut emendemus alius alium in nomine Domini. Fiat justitia in judicio. And then and there, do best have best, for club half penny. Or peradventure ye will set pen to paper, and all to rattle me in a letter, wherein confuting me you will defend your self and your brother against me. Now that would I see, quoth long Rob, ut dicitur vulgariter. Non potero sane non vehementer probare eiusmodi industriam: For so should both your integrities and innocencies best appear, if you be able to defend both your own proceedings, & your brothers ⟨p. 1755⟩doings in this matter to be upright. Et ego tum justis rationibus victus, libenter cedam, culpam humiliter confessurus. But I think it will not be. But now first of all let me know what it is that ye will not bear at my hand? What have I done with my hand?2 What hath my hand trespassed you? Forsooth, that can I tell, no man better: For I have charitably monished you in a secret letter, of your slipper dealing, and such like misbehaviour. O quam grave piaculum? i. What a sore matter is this? And will ye not bear so much with me? Will ye not take such a show of my good will towards you, and toward the saving of your soul at my hand? Oh Lord God, who would have thought that Master N. had been so impudent, that he would not bear a godly monition for the wealth of his soul? I have in use to commit such trespasses many times in a year with your betters by two or three degrees, both Lords and Ladies, of the best in the Realm, and yet hitherto I have not heard that any of them have said in their displeasure, that they will not bear it at my hand. Are you yet to be taught,3