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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.
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Forty Young Men Soldiers under the tenth Persecution, being charged by the Emperor's Officers to disown Christ. They freely and boldly all with one accord confessed themselves to be Christians, and told him their names; and being endeavoured with to win them by fair words as well as by threats of torments, they said, They desired not Life, Liberty, honours or dignities, or Money, but the Celestial Kingdom of Christ: For the love of whom and Faith in God they were ready to endure the Cross, Wheel, Fire; and were sentenced to be all that night in a Pond of water in cold weather, and next day to be burnt; who when they were putting off their clothes, said, We give thanks, ⟨p. 211⟩O Lord, that with these our clothes we may also by thy Grace put off the sinful Man; for by means of the Serpent we once put him on, and by the means of Jesus Christ we put him off. Vol. 1. p. 118.
FOrty Young Men Souldiers under the tenth Persecution, being charged by the Emperour's Officers to disown Christ. They freely and boldly all with one accord confessed themselves to be Christians, and told him their names; and being endeavour'd with to win them by fair words as well as by threats of torments, they said, They desired not Life, Liberty, honours or dignities, or Mony, but the Celestial Kingdom of Christ: For the love of whom and Faith in God they were ready to endure the Cross, Wheel, Fire; and were sentenced to be all that night in a Pond of water in cold weather, and next day to be burnt; who when they were putting off their cloaths, said, We give thanks, ⟨p. 211⟩