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An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Book.Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Booke.
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 body being burned to ashes, with great diligence they gathered them together, and cast them into the river of Rhine,1 that not so much as any memory, or remnant of him might be left. Cocleus in his second book contra Hussitas, thinketh, that the author that writ this history of I. Huss, was called Johannes Prizibram, a Bohemian, who after succeeding in the place of John Huss, at Prague, at last is thought to have relented unto the Papists.
The bodie being burned to ashes, with great diligence they gathered them together, and cast them into the riuer of Rhine,1 that not so much as any memorie, or remnant of him might be left. Cocleus in his second booke contra Hussitas, thinketh, that the author that writte this historie of I. Husse, was called Iohannes Prizibram, a Bohemian, who after succéeding in the place of Iohn Husse, at Prage, at last is thought to haue relented vnto the Papistes.
- 1They cast the ashes of Huss into the Rhine.They cast the ashes of Husse into ye Rhine.
And thus much concerning the death of I. Huss, who was burned at Constance, an. 1415. about the month of Julie. Being in prison,1 he wrote divers treatises: of the commandments of the Lord, of prayer, of mortal sin, of matrimony, of the knowledge and love of God, of three enemies of mankind, the flesh, the world, and the devil, of repentance, of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, of the sufficiency of the law of God to rule the church, &c. He had also many prophetical visions.