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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.
John the Evangelist was banished into Patmos the 97. Year of Christ; and after the death of Domitian was recalled by Pertinax the Emperor; and being returned to Ephesus, he was desired to resort to the adjacent places to appoint Bishops: where he committed a comely ingenuous young Man to the Bishop of the place, to be by him kept with great diligence; in witness hereof, Christ and his Church: Which young Man the Bishop received, and with diligence brought up, baptized, and at length committed to him a Cure in the Lords behalf. The young Man now having his liberty, through the corruptness of his Companions, became dissolute, a Thief, and a Murderer, yea, the Captain of them: and S. John being sent for again into those Parts, demanded of the Bishop, the charge committed to him; who said, he was dead to God, and become an evil Man, a Thief frequenting this Mountain: Whereat S. John rent his Clothes, and said, I have left a good Keeper of my Brother's Soul: ⟨p. 98⟩And got him a Horse and presently fell into the company of the Thieves, and was designedly taken, desiring to be brought to their Captain who was well armed, yet beginning to know S. John, fled; but when recalled by S. John, he threw down his Arms and became truly penitent, and was received into Church again. After this, S. John going to bathe himself, and seeing Cerinthus the Heretic in the Bath, would not go in lest the Bath should fall on them. Vol. 1. p. 47, 48.
Iohn the Evangelist was banished into Pathmos the 97. Year of Christ; and after the death of Domitian was recalled by Pertinax the Emperour; and being returned to Ephesus, he was desired to resort to the adjacent places to appoint Bishops: where he committed a comely ingenuous young Man to the Bishop of the place, to be by him kept with great diligence; in witness hereof, Christ and his Church: Which young Man the Bishop received, and with diligence brought up, baptized, and at length committed to him a Cure in the Lords behalf. The young Man now having his liberty, through the corruptness of his Companions, became dissolute, a Thief, and a Murderer, yea, the Captain of them: and S. Iohn being sent for again into those Parts, demanded of the Bishop, the charge committed to him; who said, he was dead to God, and become an evil Man, a Thief frequenting this Mountain: Whereat S. Iohn rent his Cloaths, and said, I have left a good Keeper of my Brother's Soul: ⟨p. 98⟩