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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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Of late it was agreed in England of all hands, according to Pauls doctrine,1 and Christs commandment (as Paul saith plainly) that nothing ought to be done in the Church, in the public congregation, but in that tongue which the Congregation could understand, that all might be edified thereby, whether it were Common Prayer, Administration of the Sacraments, or any other thing belonging to public Ministry of Gods holy and wholesome word: but (alas) all is turned upside down, Pauls doctrine is put apart: Christs commandment is not regarded: For nothing is heard commonly in the Church, but in a strange tongue, that the people doth nothing understand.
Of late it was agreed in Englande of all handes, according to Paules doctrine,1 and Christes commaūdemēt (as Paule sayth playnly) that nothing ought to be done in the Church, in the publicke congregation, but in that toūg which the Congregation could vnderstand, that all might be edefied thereby, whether it were Common Prayer, Administration of the Sacramentes, or any other thing belonging to publicke Ministerye of Gods holy and wholesome word: but (alas) all is turned vpside downe, Paules doctrine is put apart: Christs commaundement is not regarded: For nothing is heard commonly in the Church, but in a straunge tongue, that the people doth nothing vnderstand.
Of late all men and women were taught after Christs doctrine,1 to pray in that tongue which they could understand, that they might pray with hart, that which they should speak with their tongue: now (alas) the unlearned people is brought in that blindness again, to think that they pray, when they speak with their tongue, they can not tell what, nor whereof: their hart is nothing mindful at all, for that it can understand never a whit thereof.