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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.
¶The copy of the Epistle written by M. Latimer to the Archbishop of Cant.
NOn licet reverendissime praesul per superuenientem aegrotationem ad tuum palatium venire,1 non novam quidem illam, sed inueteratam, & si novis occasionibus nuper exasperatam. ⟨p. 1737⟩Certe quantum videre videor, & quantum coniecturis ducor, hodie non licebit, citra meum (inquam) magnum malum non licebit. Et ne meum expectaret aduentum diutius tua dominatio frustra: en hanc qualemcunque schedulam mea manu oblitam ad tuam amplitudinem mitto, velut excusationis nostrae certissimum indicem. In qua utinam vel per temporis importunitatem, vel per capitis gra edinem, justam aliquam expostulationem liceret tecum facere, qui me, curam animarum habenrem ab earundem curatione debita tam diu detines inuitum, & hac quidem tempestate detines, qua pastores cum gregibus adesse oportet vel maxime. Quid ni enim expostulem, si modo tam vili mancipio cum tanto patre expostulare sit licitum. Nam si Petrus arbitr•batur justum esse ratione officij sui, quamdiu in hoc foret tabernaculo, ut populum admonere & docere neutiquam cessaret, & quo propius morti hoc instantius, ergo non potest non videre iniustum si qui hodie neque docent ipsi (ut jam nihil mirer si non ante docuerunt) neque cupientes docere permittunt, nisi quos habuerunt votis per omnia & in omnibus obsequundantes. Primum liberum erat meipsum amplitudini vestrae praesentare & offerre, sed inde me ipsum eripere & extricare, parum nunc quidem videtur mihi liberum esse. Et dum aliud in principio praetenditur, aliud in progressu tam longo temporis tractu agitur, nostri negotij quis aut qualis sit futurus exitus, non immerito dubitatur: sed veritas tandem liberabit uti spero. Dominus qui custodit veritatem in seculum liberabit, super quo quid scribit Hieronymus utinam nunquam e memoria excideret. Non poterat me molestare quicquid essem pro veritate passurus: sed vivit deus, & ipsi cura est de nobis. Tum modo ad Lond. missus sum, caeterum coram Cant. interdum multis formidandis patribus stipato geruntur omnia. Res velut cancellos quosdam & limites habet, ab eo qui me misit praestitutos: