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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.
Blandina a Woman, under the Fourth Persecution, was so tormented that the Tormentors for weariness gave her over, admiring at her strength and courage, who became stronger and stronger; and as oft as she spake these words, I am a Christian, neither have we done any evil, it was a marvellous comfort, and emboldened her to abide the Torments. Vol. 1. p. 60. She afterwards was fastened to a Stake, and cast to ravening Beasts, but no Beast would come near her; so the Persecutors took her ⟨p. 18⟩down, and laid her in Prison till another time. At length she was put in a Net, and cast to the wild Bull, and after she was sufficiently gored with his Horns she felt nothing of pain, but was thus slain; of whom the very Persecutors said, Never Woman was put to death of them that suffered so much as she did. Vol. 1. p. 62, 63.
Blandina a Woman, under the Fourth Persecution, was so tormented that the Tormentors for weariness gave her over, admiring at her strength and courage, who became stronger and stronger; and as oft as she spake these words, I am a Christian, neither have we done any evil, it was a marvellous comfort, and emboldened her to abide the Torments. Vol. 1. p. 60. She afterwards was fastned to a Stake, and cast to ravening Beasts, but no Beast would come near her; so the Persecutors took her ⟨p. 18⟩down, and laid her in Prison till another time. At length she was put in a Net, and cast to the wild Bull, and after she was sufficiently gored with his Horns she felt nothing of pain, but was thus slain; of whom the very Persecutors said, Never Woman was put to death of them that suffered so much as she did. Vol. 1. p. 62, 63.
Barlaam a Martyr, under the Tenth Persecution, having endured many Torments, was at last laid on the Altar by the Persecutors, where Incense was offered to their Idols, and they put Incense into his hand, thinking that fire would cause his hand to scatter the Incense, and so he have sacrificed, but the flame eat round about his hand, which remained as though it had been covered with hot Embers, when as Barlaam recited that of the Psalmist, Blessed be God who teacheth my hands to fight. Vol. 1. p. 118, 119.