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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.
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 ⟨p. 153⟩I, said he, shall be an acceptable sacrifice to my Saviour Jesus Christ; for I have done no such things whereof I am condemned, which might displease my God, who in this behalf hath given me a good and quiet Conscience: Saying also, he being very lean, It is all one, for I must shortly have forsaken my Skin, which scarce cleaves to my bones: I know I am a mortal and corruptible worm; I have oft desired my last day, and have made my request that I might be delivered out of this mortal Body to be joined with my Saviour Jesus Christ. I have deserved through my sins my Cross, and my Saviour hath born the Cross; and for my part I will not glory in any other thing but in the Cross of Christ. Presently he was cast into the River; he struggling a while in it, the water was red with blood, which the People looked to be a miraculous sign to show that innocent blood was that day shed. This was done at Enshesheim 1525. Vol. 2. p. 111, 112.
Mr. Peter Spengler of Schalt, in the Countrey 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 answer'd all Persons gently, but desir'd the Monks to let him alone, who troubled him with their babling 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 ⟨p. 153⟩