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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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Allin. No, my sin bindeth me, and my repentance loseth. God forgiveth sin only, and no priest. For every Christian when he sinneth, bindeth himself, and when he repenteth, loseth him self.1 And if any other be loosed from his sin by my exhortation, I am said to lose him: and if he persevere in sin, notwithstanding my exhortation, I am said to bind him, although it is God that bindeth and loseth, and giveth the increase: Therefore saith Christ. Mat. 18. Wheresoever 2. or 3. are gathered together in my name, there am I in the middest of them, & whosoever sins they forgive, they are forgiven: and whosoever they retain, they are retained. Neither hath the Pope any keys, save the keys of error: for the key that openeth the lock to Gods mysteries and to salvation, is the key of faith and repentance. And as I have heard learned men reason, S. Austine and Origen, with others are of this opinion. Then they reviled him and laid him in the stocks all the night. Wherewith certain that were better minded, being offended with such extremity, willed Allin to keep his conscience to him self, and to follow Baruch's counsel in the 6. chap. Wherefore when ye see the multitude of people worshipping them, 2behind and before, say ye in your harts, O Lord it is thou that ought only to be worshipped. Wherewith he was persuaded to go to hear Mass the next day, and suddenly before the sacring went out, and considered in the Churchyard with him self, that such a little cake between the priests fingers could not be Christ, nor a material body, neither to have soul, life, sinews, bones, flesh, legs, head, arms nor breast, and lamented that he was seduced by the place of Baruch,3 which his conscience gave him to be no Scripture, or else to have an other meaning, and after this he was brought again before sir John Baker, who asked why he did refuse to worship the blessed Sacrament of the altar.
Allin. No, my sinne bindeth me, and my repētance loseth. God forgiueth sin only, and no priest. For euery Christian when he sinneth, bindeth himselfe, and when he repēteth, loseth him self.1