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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.
THE First Persecution was raised by Nero Domitius, the 6th Emperor of Rome; who thought, by raising a Persecution in all his Provinces, to abolish the Name of Christians. It was done in the year of Christ, 67. Vol. 1. p. 44.
THE First Persecution was raised by Nero Domitius, the 6th Emperour of Rome; who thought, by raising a Persecution in all his Provinces, to abolish the Name of Christians. It was done in the year of Christ, 67. Vol. 1. p. 44.
The Second Persecution began in the 69. year of Christ by Domitian, who began mildly, yet did after so rage in pride, that he commanded himself to be worshipped as God: He slew most of the Nobles, and all of the Seed of David: He intending to destroy all of the Seed of David, lest Christ should come and cast him out of his Empire: And sending for two Nephews of Jude, the Brother of Christ, who were then alive; and demanding of them concerning Christ's Kingdom, upon their information that it was not an earthly Kingdom, ⟨p. 236⟩but an heavenly Kingdom, to be manifested in the consummation of the World, when he should come again to judge the quick and dead. Domitian stayed the Persecution, and dismissed them. Vol. 1. p. 48.
The Second Persecution began in the 69. year of Christ by Domitian, who began mildly, yet did after so rage in pride, that he commanded himself to be worship'd as God: He slew most of the Nobles, and all of the Seed of David: He intending to destroy all of the Seed of David, lest Christ should come and cast him out of his Empire: And sending for two Nephews of Iude, the Brother of Christ, who were then alive; and demanding of them concerning Christ's Kingdom, upon their information that it was not an earthly Kingdom, ⟨p. 236⟩but an heavenly Kingdom, to be manifested in the consummation of the World, when he should come again to judge the quick and dead. Domitian stayed the Persecution, and dismissed them. Vol. 1. p. 48.