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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.
Anne Audebert, an Apothecaries Wife and Widow at Orleans in France, being judged to be burnt for Religion's sake, when the Rope was about her neck to strangle her, she called it her Wedding Girdle wherewith she should be married to Christ: And as she should be burned on a Saturday, she said, I was first married ⟨p. 9⟩upon a Saturday, and on a Saturday I shall be married again. And martyred she was with such constancy as made the beholders to marvel. Vol. 2. p. 135.
Anne Audebert, an Apothecaries Wife and Widow at Orleance in France, being judged to be burnt for Religion's sake, when the Rope was about her neck to strangle her, she called it her Wedding Girdle wherewith she should be married to Christ: And as she should be burned on a Saturday, she said, I was first married ⟨p. 9⟩upon a Saturday, and on a Saturday I shall be married again. And martyred she was with such constancy as made the beholders to marvel. Vol. 2. p. 135.
Somponius Algerius a young man, burnt at Rome 1555. being in Prison at Venice, (from whence he was sent to Rome) he wrote an Epistle to the persecuted and afflicted Saints, wherein he declares the many ways he was tempted to recant, to which Tempters he said, God forbid I should deny Christ, whom I ought to confess, I will not set more by my life than by my Soul, nor will I exchange the life to come for this present world. Vol. 2. p. 180, 181, 182.
Mrs. Anne Askew being 1545. apprehended, and often examined as an Heretic, subscribed two of her Confessions thus, By Anne Askew that neither wisheth death nor feareth his might, and as merry as one that is bound towards Heaven, God have the praise thereof with thanks. She always concluded her Letters with Pray, Pray, Pray. She was racked till almost dead, to discover her