A67927:6200
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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Winchester. It is no great matter where it was written: it is here, and he denieth not but he wrote it. You shall hear more of it. Here the Commissioners asked you whether Judas did eat any more than bare bread, and you answered, that he eat more then bare bread. Whereupon they sent you away back to the Kings Bench again, and asked you not what more, for the which cause (as you have written here) you had a hell burning in your conscience.1 For you had thought they would have sent a discharge to the Kings Bench, and so let me go (said you) and Register my name in their books, that I had granted that Judas did eat the body of Christ, and so the Gospel should have been slandered by me. For the which cause I was in such case, I could scantly eat, drink, or sleep for that space, as all my prison fellows can testify. If all you (I say) that go to the Church of Satan, and there hear the detestable doctrine, that they spit, and spue out in their Churches, and Pulpits to the great dishonour of God, if all you (I say) that come there, had such a hell burning in your conscience for the time, as I had till I came before them again & had uttered my conscience, more plainly. I dare say you would come there no more. All this is your writing is it not? how say you?
Winchester. It is no great matter where it was written: it is here, and he denyeth not but he wrote it. You shall heare more of it. Here the Commissioners asked you whether Iudas did eate any more thē bare bread, and you answered, that he eate more then bare bread. Whereupon they sent you away backe to the Kynges Bench agayne, and asked you not what more, for ye whiche cause (as you haue written here) you had a hell burnyng in your conscience.1 For you had thought they would haue sent a discharge to the Kinges Benche, and so let me goe (sayd you) and Register my name in their bookes, that I had graunted that Iudas did eate the body of Christe, and so the Gospell should haue bene slaundered by me. For the which cause I was in such case, I could scantly eat, drink, or sleepe for that space, as all my prison fellowes can testifie. If al you (I say) that go to the Church of Sathan, and there heare the detestable doctrine, that they spit, and spue out in their Churches, and Pulpits to the great dishonor of God, if all you (I say) that come there, hadde such a hell burning in your conscience for the time, as I hadde till I came before thē agayne & had vttered my conscience, more playnely. I dare saye you woulde come there no more. All this is your writing is it not? how say you?