A67927:5168
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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Prior ortum habebat ex illa nostri violenta divulsione, à catholicae Ecclesiae unitate, re non dissimili illius pugnae, quam olim Menenius Agrippa in intestina civium discordia, de corpore humano memorabat. Posterior ex immensa palude & coeno Wicleviano emanavit: quem celebris apud nos imo miserabilis de Sacramento altaris patefecit. De cuius rei veritate plerique suo sensu abundantes, pro arbitrio quisque suo statuerat. Nos Philosophos, nec illos quidem optimos, imitati ex Epicureorū schola ad scripturae lumen aliquid attulimus, quòd enim Christus omnino, praecise, & sine exceptione, de vera & perpetua sui corporis praesentia affirmarat (in cuius verbi veritate fundamentum fidei nostrae collocatur) id nos ita sumus interpretati, ut man cam & alienam Christi vocem judicaremus, nisi illa Epicuri propria particula (quasi) adderetur, & quod Christiani corpus & sanguinem, id nos quasi corpus & sanguinem diceremus. Sed non est istius temporis praeterita nimium meminisse, quae utinam eterna oblivion obrui possent, neque ulla tantae labis memoria ad posteros nostros propagetur, tamen fuerunt attingenda generatim quidem, quòd erranti confessio salutaris sit, membratim verò, quod Academia his vulneribus á Censoria potestate confecta, à Censoria medicina ad salutem reduci postulat. Ipsa vero pro see & suis spondet omnes in authoritate vestra futuros, quos assiduis concionibus adeo ad poenitentiam edocuit, ut & eos ad sanam religionem fidissime transijsse, & in eadem diligenti praesentis vitae usu superioris aetatis damna sarcituros putetis. Nam qui primi in hoc cursu sunt acerrime contendunt in eo, quod tam voluntarie susceperunt & qui pigrius egressi, quasi pomeridianis horis ad hoc certamen accesserunt, ea certè praebent jam immutatae voluntatis indicia, ut quomodo temerè & ivveniliter à sana religione defecerunt, ita non nisi maturi & ⟨p. 1958⟩cum judicio ab haeresi descivisse videantur. Universis vero simul restituta & desiderata religio magis placere videtur, quia si assiduè praecepta, neque ad tempus obscurata fuisset.
Prior ortum habebat ex illa nostri violenta diuulsione, à catholicae Ecclesiae vnitate, re non dissimili illius pugnae, quam olim Menenius Agrippa in intestina ciuium discordia, de corpore humano memorabat. Posterior ex immensa palude & coeno Wicleuiano emanauit: quem celebris apud nos imo miserabilis de Sacramento altaris patefecit. De cuius rei veritate plerique suo sensu abundantes, pro arbitrio quisque suo statuerat. Nos Philosophos, nec illos quidem optimos, imitati ex Epicureorū schola ad scripturae lumen aliquid attulimus, quòd enim Christus omnino, praecise, & sine exceptione, de vera & perpetua sui corporis praesentia affirmarat (in cuius verbi veritate fundamentum fidei nostrae collocatur) id nos ita sumus interpretati, vt mā cam & alienam Christi vocem iudicaremus, nisi illa Epicuri propria particula (quasi) adderetur, & quod Christiani corpus & sanguinem, id nos quasi corpus & sanguinem diceremus. Sed non est istius temporis praeterita nimium meminisse, quae vtinam eterna obliuione obrui possent, neque vlla tantae labis memoria ad posteros nostros propagetur, tamen fuerunt attingenda generatim quidem, quòd erranti confessio salutaris sit, membratim verò, quod Academia his vulneribus á Censoria potestate confecta, à Censoria medicina ad salutem reduci postulat. Ipsa vero pro se & suis spondet omnes in authoritate vestra futuros, quos assiduis concionibus adeo ad poenitentiam edocuit, vt & eos ad sanam religionem fidissime transijsse, & in eadem diligenti praesentis vitae vsu superioris aetatis damna sarcituros putetis. Nam qui primi in hoc cursu sunt acerrime contendunt in eo, quod tam voluntarie susceperunt & qui pigrius egressi, quasi pomeridianis horis ad hoc certamen accesserunt, ea certè praebent iam immutatae voluntatis indicia, vt quomodo temerè & iuueniliter à sana religione defecerunt, ita non nisi maturi &