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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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Wherefore I must desire you my brethren to take it in good part that I am come▪ to talk with you, I promise you, not to pull you from your faith. But I both require and desire in the name of Jesus Christ that you stand to the truth of the Gospel and word, and I beseech the almighty God for his Son Jesus Christs sake to preserve both you & me in the same unto the end. For I know not myself (my brethren) how soon I shall be at the same point that you now are. Thus with many other like words he made an end, causing all that were there present to water their cheeks, contrary to all the hope they had in him, god be praised therefore.
Wheerfore I must desire you my brethren to take it in good parte that I am come▪ to talke with you, I promise you, not to pull you from your fayth. But I both requyre and desire in the name of Iesus Christ that you stande to the truth of the Gospell and worde, and I beseech the almighty God for his sonne Iesus Christes sake to preserue both you & me in the same vnto the end. For I knowe not myselfe (my brethrē) how soone I shal be at the same point that you now are. Thus with many other like wordes he made an end, causing all that were there present to water theyr cheekes, contrary to al the hope they had in him, god be praysed therfore.
Then within short time after, Pygot and Wolsey were called to judgement about the ix. day of October,1 before Doctor Fuller then Chancellor, with old Doctor Shaxton, Christopherson, and others in Commission, who laid earnestly to their charge for their belief in divers articles, but especially of the Sacrament of the altar. Whereunto their answer was: that the Sacrament of the altar was an Idol, and that the natural body and blood of Christ was not present really in the said Sacrament, and to this opinion they said they would stick, believing perfectly the same to be no heresy that they had affirmed, but the very truth whereupon they would stand. Then said the Doctors, that they were out of the Catholic faith.