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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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For you your selves are the cause of this business: you gave occasion of this confession, among whom this day ought to be a notable example, to remain as a memorial to them that shall come after, as in that which ye may learn not only to shake of the filth which ye have taken of these persons, but also to beware hereafter that ye fall no more so shamefully as ye have done. But I trust God will defend you, and give you minds to keep your selves from it.
For you your selues are the cause of this busines: you gaue occasion of this confession, among whom this day ought to be a notable example, to remayne as a memoriall to them that shall come after, as in that which ye may learne not onely to shake of the filth which ye haue taken of these persons, but also to beware hereafter that ye fall no more so shamefully as ye haue done. But I trust God will defend you, and geue you myndes to kepe your selues from it.
As concerning the parties themselves,1 whose case now ham geth in law, they bare about the name of the Gospel, where as in deed they wrought nothing else than the every and deceit. And so much the wickeder were they, in that they sought to cover so shameful acts, with the cloak of so fair and holy a name. Wherefore it is not to be doubted, but that God will punish this despite of it self wicked, to you pernicious, by the authors thereof shameful and abominable.
As concernyng the parties themselues,1 whose case now hā geth in lawe, they bare about the name of the Gospell, where as in deede they wrought nothyng els than the euery and deceite. And so much the wickeder were they, in that they sought to couer so shameful actes, with the cloke of so faire and holy a name. Wherefore it is not to be doubted, but that God will punish this despite of it selfe wicked, to you pernicious, by the authors therof shamefull and abhominable.