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Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the trials and dying expressions of many…Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many…
Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the trials and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Fox's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Foxe's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]
London: printed for R. Butler, 1677
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 another Letter, exhorting to patience under the Cross, he saith, That our Enemies cruelty hath no further ⟨p. 83⟩power than God permits, and what comes to us by the will of our heavenly Father, can be no harm, but felicity to us. We, as Men, suffer these evils; but as Christians we overcome them, nor can they separate between Gods love and us; they can but last our short life, and then must give way to our partaking of eternal joys. Vol. 3. p. 161. Nothing can hurt us that is taken from us for Gods Cause, nor can any thing do us good that is kept against Gods Commandment; let us surrender goods and life to his will, and then it matters not whether we keep or lose it. Vol. 3. p. 163.
In another Letter, exhorting to patience under the Cross, he saith, That our Enemies cruelty hath no further ⟨p. 83⟩power than God permits, and what comes to us by the will of our heavenly Father, can be no harm, but felicity to us. We, as Men, suffer these evils; but as Christians we overcome them, nor can they separate betwen Gods love and us; they can but last our short life, and then must give way to our partaking of eternal joyes. Vol. 3. p. 161. Nothing can hurt us that is taken from us for Gods Cause, nor can any thing do us good that is kept against Gods Commandment; let us surrender goods and life to his will, and then it matters not whether we keep or lose it. Vol. 3. p. 163.
William Hunter, an Apprentice to one Thomas Taylor, a Silk-weaver in London, fled at nineteen years old for Religion's sake, to Burntwood, to his Fathers House; and being at Burntwood, in the Church, found a Bible, and did read in it, till a Sumner came in and threatened him for it, telling him he was an Heretic and deserved death; and called one Thomas Wood Vicar of Southwel (being ⟨p. 84⟩then in the Town) to him, who said to Hunter, He ought not to read, and that he was an Heretic; and threatened him much. To whom Hunter said, I would you and I were now fast tied to a Stake, to prove whether you, or I, would stand strongest to our Faith; I dare set my Foot to yours, even to death. Yet being thus threatened, whilst the Vicar went to inform, he fled into the Country; but his Father was sent for, and forced to go and seek him, and to bring him into his Enemies hands: who, much against his natural affection and will, rode two or three days into the Country to seek him. And his Son, meeting him, did conjecture the cause of his Fathers Journey; and said, he would return with him and save him harmless, whatever came of it: and as soon as he came home he was laid in the Stocks, and had before one Justice Brown; who soon sent him to Bishop Bonner, who a while flattered the young Man; but at last, seeing he would not recant, threatened to make him sure enough: