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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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Grat. 1To that I answered: my Lord I know your cruelty doth extend more largelier then your pity. Good experience so I have to say, for you keep men in prison • year or two, taking their books from them, permitting them not so much as a Testament to look upon for their souls comfort, the which all men ought to have: and so you entreat them more like brute beasts then Christen men.
Grat. 1To that I answered: my Lord I know your crueltie doth extend more largelier then your pity. Good experience so I haue to say, for you kepe men in prison • yeare or two, taking their bookes from them, permitting thē not so muche as a Testament to looke vppon for theyr soules comfort, the which all men oughte to haue: and so you entreat them more like brute beastes then Christen men.
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Winch. No, sir we will use you as we will use the child, for if the child will hurt himself with the knife, we will keep the knife from him.1 So because you will damn your soul with the word, therefore you shall not have it.
Winch. No, syr we will vse you as we will vse the childe, for if the childe will hurte himselfe with the knife, we will kepe the knife from him.1 So because you wil damne your soule with the woord, therefore you shall not haue it.