A67927:5548
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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Win. Why, this fellow is perverted, & we shall get no more at his hands then we have already: therefore let us pronounce sentence against him, for we do but lose our time.
Win. Why, this felow is peruerted, & we shal get no more at his hands then we haue already: therfore lette vs pronounce sentence against him, for we do but lose our time.
Grat. Nay good my lords, seeing you will needs have my blood, let me say a little more for my self. 1Upon sunday last, when I was before you, you preached this, which was a truth, & agreeable to the doctrine of the apostle s. James, and said: If any man think himself a religious man, & in the mean time seduce his tongue or his heart, the same mans religion is a vain religion: and so my lord you standing there in the pulpit,2 in the mean time seduced your tong to slander us pore prisoners being there present in iron bonds, burdening us with the sect of Arians, and with the sect of Herodians, and with the sect of Anabaptists, and with the sect of sacramentaries, & with the sect of Pelagians. And when we stood up to purge our selves thereof, you said you would cut out our tongues, & cause us to be pulled out of the church by violence. But there you gave your self a shrewd blow,3 for your tongue in the mean time slandered your neighbour. For I my Lord will give my life against all these heresies, the which you there burdened us withal, even as I will give my life against that wherein I now stand before you. And with that he was raging angry, and caught my condemnation and said.
Grat. Nay good my lordes, seeing you wil nedes haue my bloud, let me say a little more for my selfe. 1Upon sonday last, whē I was before you, you preached this, which was a truth, & agreeable to the doctrine of the apostle s. Iames, and said: If any mā thinke himself a religious man, & in the meane time seduce his toung or hys heart, ye same mans religion is a vain religion: and so my lord you stāding there in ye pulpit,