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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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Linc. Master Ridley, yesterday we took your answer to certain Articles,1 which we then proposed unto you: but because we could not be throughly satisfied with your answer then to the first Article, neither could the Notaries take any determinate answer of you,2 we (you requiring the same) granted you licence to bring your answer in writing, and thereupon commanded the Major that you should have pen, paper, and ink, yea any books also that you would require, if they were to be gotten: we licensed you then also to alter your former answers this day at your pleasure: Therefore we are come now hither to see whether you are in the same mind now that you were in yesterday, (which we would not wish) or contrary, contented to revoke all your former assertions, and in all points content to submit your self to the determination of the universal Church, and I for my part most earnestly exhort you (and therewith he put of his cap) not because my conscience pricketh me as you said yesterday, but because I see you a rotten member and in the way of perdition. Yesterday I brought forth amongest other S. Austen, to prove that authority hath always been given to the sea of Rome, and you wrested the words far contrary to S. Austens meaning, in that you would have totus mundus to be applied only to Europe, which is but the third part of all the world, where as in deed the process of S. Augustine's words will not admit that your interpretation. For he saith not totus mundus Christianus in transmarinis. &c. but first,3 totus mundus Christianus Romanae Ecclesiae subiectus est: All the Christian world is subject to the Church of Rome, and afterward addeth in transmarinis partibus, beyond the Sea, but only to augment the dominion of the sea of Rome.
Linc. Maister Ridley, yesterday wee tooke your aunswere to certayne Articles,1 which we then proposed vnto you: but because wee coulde not be throughly satisfied with your aunsweare then to the fyrste Article, neyther coulde the Notaries take any determinate aunsweare of you,2