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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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And thou O Sir George Barnes (the trueth is to be confessed to Gods glory, and to the good example of other) thou wast in thy year not only a furtherer and con•i•ner of that which before thee by thy predecessor was well begun: but also diddest labour so to have perfected the work,1 that it should have been an absolute thing and a perfect spectacle of true charity and Godliness unto all Christendom. Thine endeavour was to have set up an house of occupations, both that all kind of poverty being able to work, should not have lacked, whereupon profitably they might have been occupied to their own relief & to the profit and commodity of the common wealth of the City, and also to have retired thither, the poor Babes brought up in the Hospitals, when they had come to a certain age and strength, and also all those which in the hospitals aforesaid had been cured of their diseases. And to have brought this to pass, thou obtainedst (not without great diligence and labour, both of thee & of thy brethren) of that Godly King Edward, that Christian and peerless Princes hand, his Princely place of Bridewell,2 and what other things to the performance of the same, and under what condition it is not unknown. That this thine endeavour hath not had like success, the fault is not in thee, but in the condition and state of the time, which the Lord of his infinite mercy vouchsafe to amend when it shall be his gracious will and pleasure.
And thou O Syr George Barnes (the trueth is to be confessed to Gods glory, and to the good example of other) thou wast in thy yeare not onely a furtherer and con•i•ner of that which before thee by thy predecessour was well begunne: but also diddest labor so to haue perfited the work,1 that it shoulde haue bene an absolute thing and a perfecte spectacle of true charity and Godlinesse vnto all Christendome. Thyne endeuoure was to haue set vppe an house of occupations, both that all kinde of pouerty being able to worke, shoulde not haue lacked, whereupon profitably they might haue bene occupied to their owne reliefe & to the profite and commoditye of the common wealthe of the City, and also to haue retired thither, the poore Babes brought vp in the Hospitals, when they had come to a certayne age and strength, and also all those which in the hospitalles aforesayd had bene cured of theyr diseases. And to haue brought this to passe, thou obteynedst (not withoute great diligence and labor, both of thee & of thy brethren) of that Godly King Edwarde, that Christian and pierlesse Princes hand, his Princely place of Bridewell,