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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.
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 ⟨p. 206⟩by some Prop; which token God granted as it were an answer to his Prayer. Vol. 3. p. 382.
Christopher Ward burned at Dartford, 1555. who coming to the Stake, being in a Pitch Barrel fastned to it, he held up his hands and eyes to Heaven, saying, with a chearful and loud voice, the last Verse of the 86. Psalm, Shew 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 cryed with a loud voice, but without any impatience, Lord Iesus 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 ⟨p. 206⟩by some Prop; which token God granted as it were an answer to his Prayer. Vol. 3. p. 382.
Thomas Whittle, a Priest, burnt with six others, Jan. 28. 1556. was, by the persuasions of the Papists, brought to recant; but after that, he felt such an horror of Conscience, that he did earnestly beg to see again the Bill he had subscribed; and seeing it, he rent out his Name, and then was right glad: and in a Letter, after his condemnation, he said, Now I am condemned to dye, my conscience and mind is, I praise God, quiet in Christ, and I am willing and content to give this Body to death for a Testimony of his truth against Antichrist In another Letter he thus writes; The World I do forsake, To Christ I me take; And for his Gospel's sake, Patiently I Death take; My Body to the Dust, Now to return it must;