A67927:5606
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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Collins. This rebel will believe nothing but scripture. How knowest thou that it is the scripture but by the church? and so sayeth S. Austin.
Collins. This rebel wil beleue nothing but scripture. How knowest thou that it is the scripture but by the church? and so sayeth S. Austin.
Allin. I cannot tell what Austine saith, but I am persuaded, that it is Scripture, by divers arguments. 1First, that the law worketh in me my condemnation. The law telleth me that of my self I am damned: and this damnation, M. Collins, you must find in your self, or else you shall never come to repentance. For as this grief & sorrow of con science, without faith, is desperation, so is a glorious & Romish faith without the lamentations of a mans sins presumption. The second is the gospel, which is the power & spirit of God. This spirit (saith S. Paul) certifieth my spirit that I am the Son of God, and that these are the Scriptures. The third, are the wonderful works of God, which cause me to believe that there is a God though we glorify him not as God.2 Rom. 1. The sun, the moon, the stars and other his works (as David discourseth in the xix. Psalm) declareth that there is a God, and that these are the scriptures, because that they teach nothing else but God and his power, majesty and might: and because the scripture teacheth nothing dissonant from this prescription of nature. And fourthly, because that the word of God gave authority to the church in paradise, saying that the seed of the woman should burst down the Serpents head. This seed is the gospel: this is all the scriptures, and by this we are assured of eternal life, and these words: The seed of the woman shall burst the serpents head, gave authority to the church, and not the church to the word.
Allin. I cannot tell what Austine sayth, but I am perswaded, that it is Scripture, by diuers arguments.