A67927:884
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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At Cambridge (as I heare say) Omnes studiorum & statutorum reformations nuper factae, nunc sunt denuo deformatae & delete, & omnia sunt in pristinum chaos & in antiquum papismum reducta: omnes collegiorum prefecti qui synceritati Evangelij favebant, vel qui coniugati erant, loco moti• sunt, & alij Papisticae factionis in eorum loca surrogati, quod & de socijs collegiorum qui noluerunt flectere genu Baal factum esse audio. Nec mirum, nam & illud passim factum est in universo ⟨p. 1730⟩regno Angliae, in omnibus Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Decanis. Prebendarijs, Sacerdotibus Ecclesiarum, & in toto cl••o: and to tell you much naughty matter in few words, Papismus apud nos ubique in pleno suo antiquo robore regnat.
At Cambridge (as I heare say) Omnes studiorum & statutorum reformationes nuper factae, nunc sunt denuo deformatae & delete, & omnia sunt in pristinum chaos & in antiquum papismum reducta: omnes collegiorum prefecti qui synceritati Euangelij fauebant, vel qui coniugati erant, loco moti• sunt, & alij Papisticae factionis in eorum loca surrogati, quod & de socijs collegiorum qui noluerunt flectere genu Baal factum esse audio. Nec mirum, nam & illud passim factum est in vniuerso ⟨p. 1730⟩regno Angliae, in omnibus Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Decanis. Prebendarijs, Sacerdotibus Ecclesiarum, & in toto cl••o: and to tell you muche naughty matter in fewe woordes, Papismus apud nos vbique in pleno suo antiquo robore regnat.
1The Lord be merciful, and for Christs sake pardon us our old unkindness and unthankfulness: for when he poured upon us the gifts of his manifold graces and favour (alas) we did not serve him nor render unto him thanks according to the same. We pastors many of us were to cold and bare to much (alas) with the wicked world,