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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.
Wherefore the child was grievously scourged, & the skin of his head pulled of hair and all, the mother standing by, & exhorting the child to patience and constancy; he was put to death with Romanus, the child was beheaded,1 and Romanus cast into the fire. Which when it would not burn him, he was brought from the same, and strangled in prison.
Wherefore the child was grieuously scourged, & the skin of his head pulled of hayre and all, the mother standing by, & exhorting the child to patience and constancie; he was put to death with Romanus, the child was beheaded,1 and Romanus cast into ye fire. Which whē it would not burne him, he was brought from the same, and strangled in prison.
- 1A miracle.A myracle.
Gordius 1was a citizen of Caesarea, a Centurion, who gave over his charge, & lived in the desert a long time: but upon a certain day when a solemn feast of Mars was celebrated with games, in the Theatre of Caesarea, he came thither, & gat up to the highest place of the Theatre: and uttered himself a Christian in the hearing of all the people: whereupon after he had endured many & grievous torments, the sheriff assayed by flattery: which when it would not prevail, he caused him to be had out of the City to be burned, which was accomplished, and suffered of him with patience. Likewise suffered Menas an Egyptian soldier after that in like sort with Gordius, he had declared himself to be a Christian in the city of Cotis, where after diverse torments, by the commandment of Pyrrhus the President, he suffered the loss of his head.