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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.
Polycarpus, three days before he was apprehended saw in a Vision his Bed on fire, and consumed; and when he awaked he told them with him, how that he should die in the fire for Christ: And when he was pursued, having removed once or twice, and might still have fled, he would not, but said; The will of God be done: and came down to his Pursuers as soon as he heard they were come, and spake to them with a cheerful voice and a pleasant countenance, and caused the Table to be spread, and they to dine with him; and begged of them an hours time for prayer: which he made so, as ⟨p. 126⟩the hearers thereof were astonished and sorry they had pursued him: And going to the place of Execution, in an uproar of the People, when he could not be heard, there came a voice to him from Heaven, saying: Be of good cheer, Polycarp, and play the Man. Many heard the voice, but none was seen to speak. And after this, Polycarp being advised by the Proconsul to defy Christ, he said; 86 years have I been his Servant, and in all this time he hath not so much as hurt me; how then can I speak evil of my King and Sovereign Lord who hath thus preserved me. Being to be fixed to the Stake, he would not; but said, God who had given him strength to suffer, would give him power to abide, and not stir in the midst of the fire. So he stood, and thanked God that he should now become a Martyr; and though the fire was kindled, yet could it not burn his Body, but the wind kept it off; and when the Persecutors saw that, they ordered his Body to be thrust through with a Sword; and so much blood issued out as quenched ⟨p. 127⟩the fire. He suffered the 167. year of Christ, about January 24. and was martyred in his own Church at Smyrna. Vol. 1. p. 55, 56, 57.
Polycarpus, three dayes before he was apprehended saw in a Vision his Bed on fire, and consumed; and when he awaked he told them with him, how that he should die in the fire for Christ: And when he was pursued, having removed once or twice, and might still have fled, he would not, but said; The will of God be done: and came down to his Pursuers as soon as he heard they were come, and spake to them with a chearful voice and a pleasant countenance, and caused the Table to be spread, and they to dine with him; and begg'd of them an hours time for prayer: which he made so, as ⟨p. 126⟩