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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.
Thomas Watts, an Essex Man, a Linen-Draper, expecting every day to be sent for and imprisoned for the Gospel, did dispose of his things; and sold, and gave to the Poor, his Cloth, and at length was imprisoned; and not recanting by the flatteries and threats of Bishop Bonner, he was condemned; and going to take leave of his Wife and six Children, he said to them thus: I must now depart from you, therefore henceforth I know you no more; but as the Lord hath given you to me, I give you again to him, whom I charge ye see to obey, and beware ye turn not to Popery; against ⟨p. 205⟩which, by God's grace, I shall anon give my blood: Let not the murdering of God's Saints cause you to relent, but take occasion thereby to be strong in the Lord's quarrel; and I doubt not but he will be a merciful Father to you: and so he went to the Stake, kissed it, and was burned, June 9. 1555. Vol. 3. p. 268.
Thomas Watts, an Essex Man, a Linen-Draper, expecting every day to be sent for and imprisoned for the Gospel, did dispose of his things; and sold, and gave to the Poor, his Cloath, and at length was imprisoned; and not recanting by the flatteries and threats of Bishop Bonner, he was condemned; and going to take leave of his Wife and six Children, he said to them thus: I must now depart from you, therefore henceforth I know you no more; but as the Lord hath given you to me, I give you again to him, whom I charge ye see to obey, and beware ye turn not to Popery; against ⟨p. 205⟩which, by God's grace, I shall anon give my blood: Let not the murdering of God's Saints cause you to relent, but take occasion thereby to be strong in the Lord's quarrel; and I doubt not but he will be a merciful Father to you: and so he went to the Stake, kissed it, and was burned, Iune 9. 1555. Vol. 3. p. 268.
Christopher Ward burned at Dartford, 1555. who coming to the Stake, being in a Pitch Barrel fastened to it, he held up his hands and eyes to Heaven, saying, with a cheerful and loud voice, the last Verse of the 86. Psalm, Show some good token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed; because thou Lord hast helped me and comforted me: and the fire being kindled, he cried with a loud voice, but without any impatience, Lord Jesus receive my Soul; and when his voice could not be heard, his hands were held up, and continued clasped together and held up towards Heaven, even when he was dead and altogether roasted, as though they had been stayed up