A67927:5586
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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Allin. If we had that law, we should neither have disobedient children, neither adulterers, neither false witness bearers, neither ruffians.
Allin. If we had that law, we should neither haue disobedient children, neither adulterers, neither false witnesse bearers, neither ruffians.
Baker. Master Collins, let us return to our first matter. Why diddest thou teach the people, whom thou saidst thou didst feed both bodily and spiritually, being no Priest?
Baker. Master Collins, lette vs returne to our first matter. Why diddest thou teach ye people, whom thou saidst thou didst fede both bodely and spiritually, being no Priest?
Allin. Because that we are all kings to rule our affections, priests to preach out the virtues & word of God, as Peter writeth: & lively stones, to give light to other. For as out of flint stones cometh forth that, that is able to set all the world on fire, so out of Christians should spring the beams of the Gospel, which should inflame all the world. If we must give a reckoning of our faith to every man, and now to you demanding it, then must we study the Scriptures & practise them? What availeth it a man to have meat and will eat none, and apparel and will wear none, or to have an occupation, and to teach none, or to be a lawyer and utter none? Shall every artificer be suffered, yea and commended to practise his faculty and science, and the Christian forbidden to exercise his: Doth not every lawyer practise his law? Is not every christian a follower of Christ? Shall ignorance which is condemned in all sciences be practised of christians? Doth not s. Paul forbid any mans spirit to be quenched? Doth he prohibit any man that hath any of these gifts, which he repeateth.