A67927:5536
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Winch. And he said, I asked thee even now if thou understoodest Latin, and thou saidest, whether I can or no, the people shall bear witness in English.
Winch. And he said, I asked thee euen now if thou vnderstoodest Latine, and thou saidest, whether I can or no, the people shall beare witnesse in English.
Grat. And so I called again for the Testament, whether it were Latin or English for the trial of the text.
Grat. And so I called againe for the Testament, whether it were Latin or English for the triall of the text.
Winch. And then when the bish. of Winchester saw that I cared not, whether of the Translations I had, he stood up, thinking to beguile some simple man that had a book there, & bad him that had an English Testament to bring it in, that he might get some hold at him that should bring a testament,1 but God disappointed him thereof, & so he flue away from his matter, and began to rail upon me, & said my subtle Arguments should not serve, for if I would not answer directly, I should nevertheless be excommunicated: for (said he) I see a mad •oy in thine head: thou gloriest much in thy talk, and thinkest now the people are come about thee, that thou shalt encourage them with thy constant heretical opinion.2 For the last day when thou wast before me upon Sunday in s. Mary Overies church, thou there reprovedst my sermon, & haddest a thousand by thee at the lest, to bid God strengthen thee: but now let me see him here that dare open his mouth to bid God strengthen thee: he shall die the death that thou shalt die.