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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.
but through the badness of the fire he burned on one side, and below on the legs, a great while, and yet his upper parts were not burned, so that he leaped under the Faggots; and calling to the Lord for mercy, ⟨p. 145⟩did call on the Persons by to let the fire come to him, for he could not burn, he said; and showed them one side clean Shirt, and all untouched, whole, and the other burnt. p. 504, 505. he writing to his Friends, and taking leave of them, desires them not to be astonished at the manner of his sufferings; and said, I assure you I esteem it the greatest honour that ever I was called to in my life; and I thank my Lord heartily for it, that he hath called me to the high favour to suffer death willingly for his sake, which is an inestimable gift of God; therefore, O ye that love me, rejoice, and rejoice again, with me; and render, with me, thanks to God that hath called me to this dignity. Vol. 3. p. 505.
but through the badness of the fire he burned on one side, and below on the legs, a great while, and yet his upper parts were not burned, so that he leaped under the Faggots; and calling to the Lord for mercy, ⟨p. 145⟩did call on the Persons by to let the fire come to him, for he could not burn, he said; and shewed them one side clean Shirt, and all untouched, whole, and the other burnt. p. 504, 505. he writing to his Friends, and taking leave of them, desires them not to be astonished at the manner of his sufferings; and said, I assure you I esteem it the greatest honour that ever I was called to in my life; and I thank my Lord heartily for it, that he hath called me to the high favour to suffer death willingly for his sake, which is an inestimable gift of God; therefore, O ye that love me, rejoice, and rejoice again, with me; and render, with me, thanks to God that hath called me to this dignity. Vol. 3. p. 505.
Could Queen Mary have been entreated for Bishop Ridley, or could his life have been purchased, the Lord Dacres in the North, his Kinsman, would have given her 1000 Marks, or 1000 Pounds, rather than he should have been burned. Vol. 3. p. 996.