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.

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Title: 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.
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 of William Tyms, geuing thankes to his parishioners, for theyr charity she∣wed to his wife being brought to bed of a childe in his captiuity.

THe euerlasting peace of our deare Lord and only saui∣our Iesus Christ,* 1.1 with the sweete comfort of his holy & mighty spirite, to the encrease of your fayth, to the perfour∣mance of his will, and to your eternall cōfort in the euerla∣sting kingdome of heauen, be with you, my deare brethren and sisterne both now and euer, Amen.

My most deare brethren & sisterne in our Lord and sa∣uior Iesus Christ, I haue me most hartely cōmended vn∣to you, with harty thankes for all the great liberality that you haue shewed vnto me, & specially now in this time of my necessity, whē that God hath sēt my poore wife a childe in my captiuity: which is no litle care to me, so to prouide, that I might keepe both the child & my wife from the An∣tichristian church: the which thing, I thanke my good god, through his most gracious prouidence, I haue yet done though it be (as you know) great charge, not to me, but to y^e congregation of God: & it greueth me that I haue bene so chargeable to thē as I haue bene, & specially you my deare brethrē, I being so vnworthy a member as I haue bene, & also of so small acquintance: but such is the mercifull good∣nes of God, so to moue your hartes with charity towards me. And as he hath moued your hartes so to doe, euen so I beseech God to geue you power to forsake & refuse al thin∣ges the which be displeasant in his sight, & to do al things which be requisite to a Christiā: & send you grace to go for∣wardes in the same as you haue godly begon, neither fea∣ring fire nor sword. And my most deare hartes, remember well the simple playne doctrine the which I haue taught you & also writtē vnto you, which was y^e trueth, & for a te∣stimony of the same, I trust that you shall shortly heare, or els see that I wil seale the same with my bloud. And in the meane time I desire you al to remember me in your prai∣ers, as I know you do, & as with Gods helpe, I will doe for you, that God for his deare sonne Christes sake, will so finish the dayes of our pilgrimage, that we may rest toge∣ther with Abrahā, Isaac & Iacob, in the euerlasting king∣dome of heauē: to the which I beseech the eternall God for his Christes sake to bring both you and all yours. Amen.

By me William Tyms.

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* 1.1

An other letter of W. Tyms to the faythfull brethren in his parish.

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