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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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Farewell therefore Cambridge my loving mother and tender nurse.1 If I should not acknowledge thy manifold benefits, yea if I should not for thy benefits at the least love thee again, truly I were to be counted to ungrate & unkind. What benefits hadst thou ever, that thou usest to give & bestow upon thy best beloved children, that thou thoughtest too good for me? Thou didst bestow on me all thy school degrees, of thy common offices, the Chaplainship of the university, the office of the Proctorship, & of a common Reader, & of thy private commodities & emoluments in colleges? what was it that thou madest me not partner of? First to be scholar, then to be fellow, & after my departure from thee, thou calledst me again to a mastership of a right worshipful college. I thank thee my loving mother for all this thy kindness, and I pray God that his laws and the sincere gospel of Christ, may ever be truly taught and faithfully learned in thee.
Farewel therfore Cambridge my louyng mother and tender nurse.1 If I should not acknowled thy manifold benefits, yea if I should not for thy benefits at the least loue thee agayne, truly I were to be counted to vngrate & vnkynde. What benefites hadst thou euer, that thou vsest to geue & bestow vppon thy best beloued children, that thou thoughtest too good for me? Thou didst bestowe on mee all thy schoole degrees, of thy common offices, the Chaplaynship of the vniuersitie, the office of the Proctorship, & of a common Reader, & of thy priuate commodities & emoluments in colledges? what was it that thou madest me not partner of? First to be scholer, then to be fellow, & after my departure from thee, thou calledst me againe to a maistership of a right worshipful colledge. I thanke thee my louing mother for al this thy kindnes, and I pray God that his lawes and the sincere gospell of Christ, may euer bee truly taught and faithfully learned in thee.
- 1Benefits shewe• to D. Ridley in Cambridge.Benefites shewe• to D. Ridley in Cambridge.