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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.
Robert Smith burnt, 1555. at Uxbridge, August; who being at the Stake, comforted the people, willing them to think well of his Cause, and not doubt but that his Body dying in that quarrel should rise again to life: And I doubt not, said he, but God will show some Token thereof: At length, being near half burnt, and clustered together on a lump like a black Coal; all Men thinking him to be dead, he suddenly rose upright, lifting up his stumps of his Arms, clapping them together as a Token of rejoicing; and then bending down again he dyed. In a Letter to his Wife, he writes thus, If ye will meet with me again, Forsake not Christ for any pain. Vol. 3. p. 410, 411. He wrote this Exhortation to his Children.
Robert Smith burnt, 1555. at Uxbridge, August; who being at the Stake, comforted the people, willing them to think well of his Cause, and not doubt but that his Body dying in that quarrel should rise again to life: And I doubt not, said he, but God will shew some Token thereof: At length, being near half burnt, and cluster'd together on a lump like a black Coal; all Men thinking him to be dead, he suddenly rose upright, lifting up his stumps of his Arms, claping them together as a Token of rejoicing; and then bending down again he dyed. In a Letter to his Wife, he writes thus, If ye will meet with me again, Forsake not Christ for any pain. Vol. 3. p. 410, 411. He wrote this Exhortation to his Children.
Give ear my Children to my words, whom God hath dearly bought; Lay up my Law within your heart, and print it in your thought: ⟨p. 160⟩For I, your Father, have foreseen the frail and filthy way, Which flesh and blood would follow fain, even to their own decay; For all and every living Beast their Crib do know full well; But Adam's Heirs above the rest are ready to rebel: And all the Creatures on the Earth full well can keep their way, But Man, above all other Beasts, is apt to go astray; For Earth and Ashes is his strength, his glory, and his Reign; And unto Ashes, at the length, he shall return again: For Flesh doth flourish like the Flower, and grow up like a Grass; And is consumed in an hour, as it is brought to pass, In me the Image of your years, your treasure, and your trust; Whom ye do see, before your Face, dissolved into Dust: For as you see your Father's Flesh converted into Clay, Even so shall ye, my Children dear, consume and wear away. The Sun and Moon, and eke the Stars, that serve the day and night;