A67927:5056
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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Thornton. Well, will ye stand to it?
New. I must needs stand to it, till I be persuaded to a further truth.
New. I must needes stande to it, till I bee perswaded to a further truth.
Thornton. Nay, ye will not be persuaded, but stand to your own opinion.
Thornton. Nay, yee will not bee perswaded, but stande to your owne opinion.
New. Nay I stand not to mine own opinion, GOD I take to witness, but only to the scriptures of God, and that can all those that stand here witness with me, and nothing but the scriptures: and I take God to witness, that I do nothing of presumption, but that that I do, is only my conscience, and if there be a further trueth: then I see, except it appear a trueth to me, I cannot receive it as a truth. And seeing faith is the gift of God, and cometh not of man: for it is not you that can give me faith nor no man else, therefore I trust ye will bear the more with me, seeing it must be wrought by God, and when it shall please God to open a further truth to me, I shall receive it with all my hart, and embrace it.