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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.
Romanus, a great encourager of the Christians in Antioch, when they were persecuted in the 10th Persecution, was himself by Galerius, then Emperor, called out, apprehended, and sentenced to all the torments the ⟨p. 140⟩Christians should have undergone, who said, O Emperor, I joyfully accept of thy Sentence, I refuse not to be sacrificed for my Brethren; and that by as cruel a means as thou mayest invent: then he was scourged, and under the lashes he sang Psalms, and laughed to scorn the Heathens Gods; affirming the Christian's God to be the only true God, before whose judicial Seat all Nations should appear: then was his side launched till the Bones appeared; yet he still Preached Christ, and exhorted them to adore the living God; then were his Teeth knocked out, his Eye-lids torn, his Face cut; and he said, I thank thee that thou hast opened to me many Mouths whereby I may Preach my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; look how many Mouths I have, so many Mouths I have lauding and praising God. After that he was brought to new wounds and stripes, and distongued; who still spake and said, He that speaketh Christ shall never want a Tongue. At length he was had to Prison, and there strangled. ⟨p. 141⟩When some pleaded he was of Noble Parentage, and it was not lawful to put such a one to an un-noble death; he said, He required them not to spare him for Nobility-sake; for, said he, not the blood of my Progenitors, but Christian Profession maketh me Noble. Vol. 1. p. 116, 117.
ROmanus, a great encourager of the Christians in Antioch, when they were persecuted in the 10th Persecution, was himself by Galerius, then Emperour, called out, apprehended, and sentenced to all the torments the ⟨p. 140⟩Christians should have undergone, who said, O Emperour, I joyfully accept of thy Sentence, I refuse not to be sacrificed for my Brethren; and that by as cruel a means as thou may'st invent: then he was scourged, and under the lashes he sang Psalms, and laughed to scorn the Heathens Gods; affirming the Christian's God to be the only true God, before whose judicial Seat all Nations should appear: then was his side launched till the Bones appeared; yet he still Preached Christ, and exhorted them to adore the living God; then were his Teeth knockt out, his Eye-lids torn, his Face cut; and he said, I thank thee that thou hast opened to me many Mouths whereby I may Preach my Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ; look how many Mouths I have, so many Mouths I have lauding and praising God. After that he was brought to new wounds and stripes, and distongued; who still spake and said, He that speaketh Christ shall never want a Tongue. At length he was had to Prison, and there strangled.