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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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And as for the darkness that Satan now bringeth upon the Church of England, who needeth to doubt thereof? Of late time our Saviour Christ, his Apostles,1 Prophets, and Teachers, spake in the Temple to the people of England in the English tongue, so that they might be understanded plainly and without any hardness, of the godly and such as sought for heavenly knowledge in matters which of necessity of salvation pertained to the obtaining of eternal life: but now those things which once were written of them for the edifying of the congregation, are read in a strange tongue without interpretation, manifestly against saint Pauls commandment, so that there is no man able to understand them which hath not learned that strange and unknown tongue.
And as for the darkenes that Satan nowe bringeth vpon the Church of England, who needeth to doubt therof? Of late tyme our Sauiour Christe, his Apostles,1 Prophetes, and Teachers, spake in the Temple to the people of England in the Englishe tongue, so that they might be vnderstanded playnly and without any hardnesse, of the godly and such as sought for heauenly knowledge in matters whiche of necessitie of saluation perteyned to the obteyning of eternall life: but now those thinges which once were written of them for the edifiyng of the congregation, are read in a strange tongue without interpretatiō, manifestly agaynst saint Paules commaundement, so that there is no man able to vnderstand them which hath not learned that strange and vnknowen tongue.
- 1Reasons proving the religion in Q. Maryes time not to be of God.Reasons prouing the reli•ion in Q. Maryes tyme not to be of God.
Of late days those heavenly mysteries, whereby Christ hath ingrafted us into his body,