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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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And therefore that which the Poet (although in another sense) hath trimly spoken, may well be thought to have been truly prophesied upon us.
And therefore that which the Poete (although in another sence) hath trimly spoken, may well be thought to haue bene truly prophesied vpon vs.
The times and seasons changed be: And changed in the same are we.
The tymes and seasons changed be: And changed in the same are we.
Divers of them that were of a pure and sincere judgement as concerning religion, being driven from hence & distroubled, the rest that remained tasted and felt of the inhumanity of them in whose hands the authority of doing things here consisted: although to say the truth. I have used a gentler term then behooved. For it is not to be accounted inhumanity, but rather immanity & beastly cruelty, the which, when they had spent all kinds of torments and punishments upon the quick, when they had cruelly taken from such as constantly persevered, life, from others riches, honours, and all hope of promotion, yet they could not be so satisfied, but that incensed and stirred with a greater fury, it began to outrage even against the dead. Therefore where as in every singular place was executed a singular kind of cruelty, in so much, that there was no kind of cruelness that could be devised, but it was put in ure in one place or other, this was proper or peculiar to Cambridge, to exercise the cruelty upon the dead, which in other places was extended but to the quick. Oxford burnt up the right reverend fathers, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, the noble witnesses of the clear light of the Gospel. Moreover, at London perished these two lanterns of light, Rogers and Bradford: In whom it is hard to say whether there were more force of eloquence and utterance in preaching, or more holiness of life and conversation. Many other without number both here and in other places were consumed to ashes for bearing record of the truth. For what City is there that hath not flamed, I say not with burning of houses and buildings, but with burning of holy bodies? But Cambridge, after there were no more left alive upon whom they might spue out their bitter poison, played the mad Bedlam against the dead. The dead men, whose living no man was able to find fault with, whose doctrine no man was able to reprove, were by false and slanderous accusers indited, contrary to the laws of God and man sued in the law, condemned, their sepulchres violated and broken up, their carcasses pulled out and burnt with fire. A thing surely incredible if we had not seen it with our eyes, and a thing that hath not lightly been heard of. But the heinousness of this wicked act, was spread abroad as a common talk in every mans mouth, and was blown and dispersed through all Christendom.