Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 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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Title: Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 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.
Author: Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Publication: [At London :: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins],; An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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¶An other letter to M. Robert and Iohn Glouer, written the same morning that he was burnt.

GRace and consolatiō in our sweet Sauiour Christ, Oh my deare brethren whom I loue in the Lord, being lo∣ued of you also in the Lord, be mery & reioyce for me, now ready to go vp to that mine inheritance, which I my selfe in deed am most vnworthy of, but my deare Christ is wor∣thye, who hath purchased the same for me with so deare a price. Make haste my deare brethrē, to come vnto me, that we may be mery, eo gaudio quod nemo tollet a nobis. i. with that ioy which no man shall take from vs. Oh wretched sinner that I am, not thankefull vnto this my Father, who hath vouched me worthy to be a vessell vnto his honor. But O Lorde, nowe accept my thankes, though they proceed out of a not enough circumcised hart. Salute my good Sisters your wiues, & good sisters feare the Lord. Salute all other that loue vs in the trueth. Gods blessing be with you al∣wayes. Amen. Euen now towards the offering of a burnt sacrifice. O my Christ helpe, or els I perish.

Laurence Saunders.

¶After these godly letters of M. Saūders diuersly di∣spersed and sent abroad to diuers of the faythfull cōgrega∣tion of Christ, as is afore to be seene, now in the latter end we will adioyne two other letters writtē not by Mayster Saunders the martyr, but by M. Ed. Saunders the Iu∣stice his brother, sent to this our Saunders in prison, al∣though conteining no great matter worthy to be known, yet to this intent that the reader may see in these two bre∣thren so ioyned in nature, and so deuided in religiō, y^e word of the Lord verified, truely saying: brother shalbe agaynst brother.* 1.1 &c. as by the contentes of these two letters folow∣ing may appeare.

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* 1.1

Math. 10.

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