A67927:569
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Coo. If Sydrach, Meshach, and Abednego had so done, Nabucha••nosor had not confessed the living God.
Coo. If Sydrach, Mysaach, and Abednago had so done, Nabucha••nosor had not confessed the liuyng God.
Bish. Then the B. told him, that these 22. years we have been governed with such kings.
Bish. Then the B. told hym, that these 22. yeares wee haue bene gouerned with such kyngs.
Coo. My L. why were ye then dumb, and did not speak or bark?
Coo. My L. why were ye then dumme, and did not speake or barke?
Bish. I durst not for fear of death, and thus they ended. ❧ But after this done, it was reported that I rai•ed: wherefore I called it to memory, & wrote this my railing, that light should not be taken for darkness, nor sin for holiness, and the devil for God, who ought to be feared & honoured both now and ever, Amen.