A67927:5466
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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9. Item, thou hast thought &c. That Prayers to Saints or Prayers for the dead,1 are not available and not allowable by Gods word, or profitable in any wise, and that the souls departed do straightways go to heaven or to hell, or else do sleep till the day of dome, so that there is no place of purgation at all.
9. Item, thou hast thought &c. That Prayers to Saints or Prayers for the dead,1 are not auaylable and not allowable by Gods word, or profitable in any wise, and that the soules departed do straightwayes go to heauen or to hell, or els do sleep till the day of dome, so that there is no place of purgation at all.
- 1Praying for the dead.
10. Item, thou hast thought &c. that all such as in the time of king Hen. the viii. or in time of Queen Mary of England, have been burned as heretics, were no heretics at all: but faithful and good Christian people, especially Barnes, Garret, Jerome, Frith, Rogers, Hooper, Cardmaker, Latimer, Taylor, Bradford, Philpot, Cranmer,1 Ridley, and such like, and that thou diddest and doest allow, like, and approve all their opinions, & doest mislike their condemnations and burnings.
10. Itē, thou hast thought &c. that all such as in the tyme of king Hen. the viii. or in time of Queene Mary of England, haue bene burned as heretickes, were no heretickes at all: but faythfull and good Christian people, especially Barnes, Garret, Ierome, Frith, Rogers, Hooper, Cardmaker, Latimer, Taylor, Bradford, Philpot, Cranmer,1