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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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My daily prayer is (as God doth know) and by gods grace shall be so long as I live in this world, for you my dear brethren that are fled out of your own Coun••y, because you will rather forsake all worldly things […] the truth of Gods word. It is even the same that I […] to make to GOD for all those Churches abroad through the world, which have forsaken the kingdom of Antichrist, and professed openly the purity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ:1 that is, that God our eternal father for our Saviour Christs sake, will daily increase in you the gracious gift of his heavenly spirit to the true setting forth of his glory and of his Gospel, and make you to agree brotherly in the truth of the same, that there arise no rote of bitterness among you that may infect that good seed which God hath sown in your hearts already, and finally that your life may be so pure and so honest, according to the rule of Gods word, and according to that vocation whereunto we are called by the Gospel of Christ our Saviour, that the honesty and purity of the same may provoke all that shall see or know it, to the love of your doctrine, and to love you for your honesty and virtues sake, and so both in brotherly unity of your true doctrine and also in the Godly virtue of your honest life, to glorify our father which is in heaven.
My dayly prayer is (as God doth know) and by gods grace shall be so long as I lyue in this worlde, for you my deare brethren that are fled out of your owne Coun••y, because you will rather forsake all worldly thynges 〈…〉 the truth of Gods worde. It is euen the same that I 〈…〉 to make to GOD for all those Churches abroad through the worlde, which haue forsaken the kyngdome of Antichrist, and professed openly the puritie of the Gospell of Iesus Christ:1 that is, that God our eternall father for our Sauiour Christes sake, will dayly encrease in you the gracious gifte of his heauenly spirite to the true settyng forth of his glory and of his Gospell, and make you to agree brotherly in the truth of the same, that there arise no rote of bitternesse among you that may infect that good seede which God hath sowen in your hartes already, and finally that your lyfe may be so pure and so honest, accordyng to the rule of Gods worde, and according to that vocation whereunto we are called by ye Gospell of Christ our Sauiour, that the honesty and purity of the same may prouoke all that shall see or knowe it, to the loue of your doctrine, and to loue you for your honesty and vertues sake, and so both in brotherly vnity of your true doctrine and also in the Godly vertue of your honest lyfe, to glorifie our father which is in heauen.