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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.
Aymond de Lavoy at Bordeaux in France, a Preacher of the Gospel, being persecuted and sent for; his People and Friends persuaded him to fly; to whom he said, He had rather never have been born than so to do; it was the Office of a good Shepherd not to fly in time of danger, but rather to abide the peril lest the Flock be scattered; or lest some scruple might by his flight be left in their minds, that he had fed them with Dreams and Fables, contrary to Gods Word; wherefore beseeching them to move him no more therein, he told them he feared not to yield up both Body and Soul in the quarrel of the truth which he had taught, saying He was ready, with S. Paul, Acts 21. not only to be bound, but also to dye for the Testimony of Christ. ⟨p. 7⟩And when the Sumner came to apprehend him, being in the City of Bordeaux three days, Aymond preached each day a Sermon, and in his defence the People flew upon the Sumner, till Aymond desired them not to stop his Martyrdom, since it was the will of God he should suffer for him. Being apprehended, his greatest Accusation was, that he denied Purgatory: He was nine Months in Prison, in great misery, bewailing his former life, though no man could charge him with any outward Crime; and enduring more severe torments by the Officers afterwards, he being of a weak body, comforted himself thus, This Body (said he) must once dye, but the Spirit shall live; the Kingdom of God endureth for ever. And swooning, when he came to himself, he said, Oh Lord why hast thou forsaken me? but his Tormentors further vexing him, he said, O Lord I beseech thee forgive them, they know not what they do. And when Sentence was given against him, he comforted himself with S. Paul's words, ⟨p. 8⟩Rom. 8. saying, Who shall separate us from the love of God? shall the Sword, hunger, nakedness? no, nothing shall pluck me from him. And being brought to the place of Execution, he sang the 114. Psalm, and testified he dyed for the Gospel of Christ, and said, O Lord haste thee to help me, and tarry not: and desired all to study the Gospel, and not to fear them that kill the body. He said he found his Flesh to resist marvellously his Spirit, but he should soon cast it off: And then begging the people to pray for him, he said often, O Lord my God into thy Hands I commend my Soul. In the often repeating of which he dyed, being strangled and burned. Vol. 2. p. 129, 130.