Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] 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.
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Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] 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.
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Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
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[At London :: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins],
An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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Martyrs -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67922.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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The aunswere.
This your brotherhood may soone discerne, by the per∣son of a theefe, how it ought to be corrected. For some there be which hauing sufficient to liue vpon yet doe steale. O∣ther there be which steale of meere necessity. Wherfore con∣sidering the qualitye & difference of the crime, necessarye it
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is that some be corrected by losse of goodes, some by stripes some other more sharply, and some more easly: yea, & whē sharpee correction is to be executed, yet that must be done with charity, and with no fury: for in punishing offenders this is the cause and ende wherefore they are punished, bi∣cause they should be saued & not perish in hell fire. And so ought discipline to proceede in correcting the faithfull, as doe good Fathers in punishing their children, whom both they chasten for their euill, and yet being chastened, they looke to haue them their heires, and thinke to leaue them all they haue, notwithstanding they correct them some∣times in anger. Therefore this charitie must be kepte in mind. And in the correction there is a measure to be had, so that the mind neuer do any thing without the rule of rea∣son. Ye adde moreouer with what recompence of measure those things ought to be required againe which be stollen out of Churches. But God forbid that the Church should euer require againe with increase, that which is lost in outwarde thinges, and to seeke her gaine by endamaging other.