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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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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.
Pygot. No Sir, said the Painter: that is your faith and not mine.
Pygot. No Syr, sayd the Paynter: that is your fayth and not mine.
Christopher. Lo Master Doctor Fuller you would have let this fellow go: he is as much an heretic as the other. And so immediately judgement was given upon them to dye. Which done, after the sentence read, they were sent again to the prison, where they did lye till the day of their death. At which day one Peacock Bachelor of divinity being appointed to preach, took his text out of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Corin. 5. chap. of one that had lived unordinately by abusing his fathers wife:1 likening the said Pygot and Wolsey to the same man, often times saying, that such members must be cut of from the congregation, most maliciously reporting the said Wolsey to be clean out of the faith, and in many places quite denying the Scripture. So his Sermon being ended, the forenamed, Pygot & Wolsey being brought to the place of execution and so bound to the stake with a chain, thither cometh one sir Richard Collinson a priest, at that time desolate of any biding place or stay of benefice, who said unto Wolsey: brother Wolsey the preacher hath openly reported in his Sermon this day that you are quite out of the Catholic faith, & deny baptism, and that you do err in the holy Scripture: Wherefore I beseech you for the certifying of my conscience with others here present: that you declare in what place of the Scripture you do err or find fault.
Christopher. Loe Mayster Doctor Fuller you would haue lettē this felow go: he is as much an heretick as the other. And so immediately iudgemēt was geuen vpon thē to dye. Which done, after the sētēce read, they were sent again to the prison, where they did lye till the day of theyr death. At which day one Peacocke Bachelor of diuinity being appoynted to preach, took his text out of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Corin. 5. chap. of one that had liued vnordinately by abusing his fathers wife:1