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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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The true church of God laboureth by all means to resist & withstand the lusts, desires, & motions of the world,1 the flesh, and the devil. These for the most part give themselves to all voluptuousness, & secretly commit such things which (as S. Paul saith) it is shame to speak of.
The true church of God laboureth by all means to resist & withstand the lusts, desires, & motions of the world,1 the flesh, and the deuil. These for the most part geue themselues to all voluptuousnes, & secretly commit such things which (as S. Paul sayth) it is shame to speake of.
- 16. Note to know the Church.
By these and such like manifest probations they do declare themselves to be none of the church of Christ,1 but rather of the synagogue of Satan. It shall be good for you oftentimes to confer & compare their proceedings and doings, with the practise of those whom the word of God doth reach to have been true members of the church of God, & it shall work in you both knowledge, erudition, & boldness to withstand with suffering, their doings. I likened them therefore to Nimrod, whom the scripture calleth a mighty hunter, or a stout champion, telling them that that which they could not have by the word, they would have by the sword, & be the church whether men will or no, and called them with good conscience, as Christ called their forefathers, the children of the devil: and as their father the devil is a liar and murderer, so their kingdom and church (as they call it) standeth by lying and murdering.
By these and such like manifest probations they do declare themselues to be none of the church of Christ,