John Foxe

John Foxe
John Foxewas an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments, an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries...
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ball coming felt playoffs run thrown
I felt going into those playoffs that we hadn't thrown the ball very well and for us to make a run we had to throw the ball better. This year, coming into the playoffs, I think it was reversed. We had thrown the ball much better, but we had to run the ball more efficiently.
christ course
Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.
tried variety
We did a variety of things. Nothing that hasn't been tried before.
certainly guys playoffs
We have guys that have done it before in the playoffs and that certainly helps.
coast conduct east leave meetings people stay west
We think it's better. We've done it before. A lot of people like to leave a day early, but going from east to west you don't need to. We'll stay on East Coast time, conduct our meetings the same as usual. And we just like it better.
agency free salary
You'd like to keep everybody. The reality, though, with free agency and the salary cap, is that you're not able to,
kings church world
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
rocks enemy boisterous
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.
loss people mind
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
taken mean faces
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
years venice might
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.
christian mercy turns
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
against early forming industry shakes strength tough union united unusual
The only way an industry can show strength against a union is by forming a united front, ... Nothing unusual there. But I do think the union's going to take a tough stance. Where this shakes out, I don't know. We're still in the early posturing stages.
time
We know we're in a dogfight every time we come here,