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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. A godly receiving I promise you, to set an Oyster table in stead of an Altar, and to come from Puddings at Westminster, to receive: and yet when your table was constituted, you could never be content, in placing the same now East, now North, now one way, now another, until it pleased GOD of his goodness to place it clean out of the Church.
Linc. A godly receiuing I promise you, to set an Oyster table in steede of an Altar, and to come from Puddynges at Westminster, to receiue: and yet when your table was constituted, you coulde neuer be content, in placing the same now East, nowe North, nowe one way, nowe another, vntill it pleased GOD of his goodnesse to place it cleane out of the Church.
Rid. Your Lordships unreverent terms do not elevate the thing.* Perhaps some men came more devoutly from Puddings then other men now do from other things.
Rid. Your Lordshyppes vnreuerent termes doo not eleuate the thyng.* Perhappes some men came more deuoutely from Puddynges then other men nowe do from other thynges.
- *B. White blasphemously calleth the board of the Lords Supper, an Oyster table.B. White blasphemously calleth the bord of the Lordes Supper, an Oyster table.
Lin. As for that, M. Ridley, you ought to be judge of no man: but by this your reasoning you cause us to stretch and enlarge our instructions. We came not to reason, but to take your determinate answers to our Articles: and eftsoons he red the first Article in manner above specified.