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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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Letters of Robert Samuel, Preacher.
A letter or exhortation to the patient suffering of afflictions for Christs cause.
A letter or exhortation to the pacient suffering of afflictions for Christes cause.
A Man knoweth not his time, but as the fish is taken with the Angle,1 and as the birds are caught with the snare: even so are men caught and taken in the perilous time when it cometh upon them. The time cometh:2 the day draweth near. Ezekiel 7. Better it were to dye, (as the Preacher sayeth) then to live and see the miserable works which are done under the Sun: such sudden and strange mutations, such woeful, heinous, and lamentable divisions so fast approacheth, and none or very few thoroughly repenteth. Alas for this sinful nation, a people of great iniquity & seed of ungraciousness, corrupting their ways. They have forsaken the Lord,3 they have provoked the holy one of Israel to anger, & are gone backward. Who now liveth not in such security and rest,4 as though all dā gers were clean overpast? Who now blindeth and buffeteth not Christ, with seest me, and seest me not? Yea, who liveth not now in such felicity, worldly pleasures and joys, wholly seeking the world, providing & craftily shifting for the earthly clod & all carnal appetites, as though sin were clean forgotten, overthrown, and devoured? Like hoggish Gergesites now are we more afraid and ashamed of Christ our Messiah, fearing the loss of our filthy pigs, I mean our transitory goods,