A67927:5540
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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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.
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Grat. My lord, a simple argument you bring for to maintain and cover your fault. Are you not ashamed to make the word the cause of our damnation? I never knew any man but only you that did not affirm our sins to be the cause of our damnation,1 and not the word, as you say: and therefore if your Argument be good, then this is good also: Because that some men do abuse drink, therefore the benefit of drink should be taken from all men, or any other such like good gift.
Grat. My lord, a simple argument you bring for to maintaine and couer your fault. Are you not ashamed to make the woord the cause of our damnation? I neuer knew any man but only you that did not affirm our sinnes to be the cause of our damnation,1 and not the word, as you say: and therfore if your Argument be good, then this is good also: Because that some men do abuse drinke, therefore the benefite of drinke should be taken from al men, or any other such like good gift.