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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
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.
In Mesopotamia the Christians were hanged by the feet, and choked with a smoke of small fire, with divers other torments. In Cappadocia the martyrs had their legs broken.
In Mesopotamia the Christians were hanged by the féete, and choaked with a smoake of small fire, with diuers other torments. In Cappadocia the martyrs had their legs broken.
There were also martyrs in Tarsus of Cilicia, Tharatus, 1Probus, 2and Andronicus. 3But the martyrs of Pontus suffered most grievous torments: and so outrageous was the beginning of the persecution in Nichodemia, & Bithynia, that he refrained not from the slaughter of Emperors children, nor the chiefest Princes of his Court, whom not long before he had esteemed as his own children, Among whom was Peter, of the household,