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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.
to whom he did reply, Weep not, I pray, for me. And at the fire, being condemned, he said; I have done no such thing as they accuse me of: And holding up his hands, he said; O Lord, forgive them, for they offend ignorantly, not knowing what they do. In the mean time, a certain Woman offered to suffer 1000 stripes, and to give them much Money, so they would but keep him in Prison till he had pleaded his cause; but they were the more enraged, and threw down and trod upon the Woman. And seeing the fire would not burn Sutphen, they smote him with their hands, and pricked and struck him with divers weapons, and then bound him to a Ladder by the neck to strangle him, so strait and hard that the blood gushed out of his nose and mouth; the doer of it treading ⟨p. 152⟩upon his breast the while, not permitting him to prate or pray; and being tied to a Ladder, one John Holmes ran to him, and struck him with a Mace till he was dead. Vol. 1. pag. 102, 103, 104, 105, 106.
to whom he did reply, Weep not, I pray, for me. And at the fire, being condemned, he said; I have done no such thing as they accuse me of: And holding up his hands, he said; O Lord, forgive them, for they offend ignorantly, not knowing what they do. In the mean time, a certain Woman offer'd to suffer 1000 stripes, and to give them much Money, so they would but keep him in Prison till he had pleaded his cause; but they were the more enraged, and threw down and trod upon the Woman. And seeing the fire would not burn Sutphen, they smote him with their hands, and prick'd and struck him with divers weapons, and then bound him to a Ladder by the neck to strangle him, so strait and hard that the blood gushed out of his nose and mouth; the doer of it treading ⟨p. 152⟩upon his breast the while, not permitting him to prate or pray; and being tyed to a Ladder, one Iohn Holmes ran to him, and struck him with a Mace till he was dead. Vol. 1. pag. 102, 103, 104, 105, 106.
Mr. Peter Spengler of Schalt, in the Country of Brisgois 1525. a vigilant Preacher and a peaceable good Man, often reconciling differences with great prudence, and much lamenting the corruptness of Principles and Practises of the Popish Monks, and especially their Vow of single Life and its consequents, which moved him to marry; for which crime chiefly he was afterwards apprehended, and condemned to die: And being led to Execution, he answered all Persons gently, but desired the Monks to let him alone, who troubled him with their babbling about Confession, when he was striving in his Spirit against the horror of death, and making his prayer to God, to whom he said also that he had confessed his sins to God, not doubting but he had received absolution and forgiveness of them. And