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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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Now as touching the three other sentences, you must note and take heed what difference is between these three manner of offences, To be angry with your neighbour, To call your neighbour brainless, or any such word of disdain, Or to call your neighbour fool: whether these three manner of offences be of themselves more grievous one then other, it is to be opened unto you: Truly as they be of themselves divers offences, so they kill diversly more one then the other, as you shall perceive by the first of these three, and so forth: A man which conceiveth against his neighbour or brother, Ire, or wrath in his mind, by some manner of occasion given unto him, although he be angry in his mind against his said neighbour, he will not peradventure express his ire by no manner of sign, either in word or deed: yet nevertheless he offendeth against God, and breaketh this commandment in killing his own soul, and is therefore in danger of judgement.
Now as touchyng the three other sentences, you must note and take heede what difference is betweene these thre maner of offences, To bee angrye with your neighbour, To call your neighbour braynelesse, or any such worde of disdayne, Or to call your neighbour foole: whether these three maner of offences be of themselues more grieuous one then other, it is to bee opened vnto you: Truely as they be of themselues diuers offences, so they kill diuersly more one then the other, as you shall perceyue by the first of these three, and so foorth: A man which conceyueth agaynst hys neighbour or brother, Ire, or wrath in hys mynde, by some maner of occasion geuen vnto hym, although he be angry in hys mynde agaynst his sayd neighbour, he will not peraduenture expresse hys ire by no maner of signe, eyther in worde or deede: yet neuertheles he offendeth agaynst God, and breaketh this commaundement in killyng hys owne soule, and is therefore in daunger of iudgement.
Now to the second part of these three: That man that is moved with ire against his neighbour, and in his ire calleth his neighbour brainless, or some other like word of displeasure, As a man might say in a fury, I shall handle thee well enough, which words and countenances doth more represent and declare Ire to be in this man, than in him that was but angry, and spake no manner of word, ne showed no countenance to declare his Ire: wherefore he that so declareth his Ire either by word or countenance, offendeth more against God: so he both killeth his own soul, and doth that in him is, to kill his neighbours soul in moving him unto ire, wherein he is faulty himself, and so this man is in danger of counsel.