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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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Therefore as I began, I exhort you in the Lord, not to be afraid. Shrink not my brethren, mistrust not God, be of good comfort, rejoice in the Lord, hold fast your faith, and continue to the end Deny the world and take up your cross and follow him which is your loadesman,1 and is gone before. If you suffer with him, yea you shall reign with him. What way can you glorify the name of your heavenly father better, then by suffering death for his sons sake? What a spectacle shall it be to the world to behold so godly a fellowship as you servants of God, in so just a quarrel as the Gospel of Christ is, with so pure a conscience, so strong a faith, and so lively a hope, to offer your selves to suffer most cruel torments at the hands of Gods enemies, and so to end your days in peace,2 to receive in the resurrection of the righteous, life everlasting?
Therefore as I beganne, I exhort you in the Lorde, not to be afrayd. Shrinke not my brethren, mistrust not God, bee of good comforte, reioyce in the Lord, hold fast your fayth, and continue to the end Deny the world and take vp your crosse and follow him whiche is your loadesman,1 and is gone before. If you suffer with him, yea you shall raygne with him. What way can you glorifie the name of your heauenly father better, then by sufferyng death for his sonnes sake? What a spectacle shal it be to the world to beholde so godly a fellowship as you seruauntes of God, in so iust a quarrell as the Gospell of Christ is, with so pure a conscience, so strong a fayth, and so liuely a hope, to offer your selues to suffer most cruell tormentes at the handes of Gods enemyes, and so to end your dayes in peace,2 to receaue in the resurrection of the righteous, life euerlasting?