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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.
Roger Bernard, a Suffolk man, burned with two others at S. Edmunds-Bury, June 30. 1556. he being diversly flattery allured to turn, yet though a poor Labourer continued constant; and when he was threatened with punishments, he said, Friends, I am not better than my Master Christ, and the Prophets, whom your Fathers served after this sort; and I for his Names sake am content to suffer the like at your hands, if God shall so permit, ⟨p. 32⟩trusting that he will strengthen me in the same, according to his promise, in spite of the Devil and all his Ministers. And so constantly he endured the flames with Prayer and Praises. Vol. 3. p. 710.
Roger Bernard, a Suffolk man, burned with two others at S. Edmunds-Bury, Iune 30. 1556. he being diversly flattery allured to turn, yet though a poor Labourer continued constant; and when he was threatned with punishments, he said, Friends, I am not better than my Master Christ, and the Prophets, whom your Fathers served after this sort; and I for his Names sake am content to suffer the like at your hands, if God shall so permit, ⟨p. 32⟩trusting that he will strengthen me in the same, according to his promise, in spite of the Devil and all his Ministers. And so constantly he endured the flames with Prayer and Praises. Vol. 3. p. 710.
Agnes Bongeor, one of 10 Prisoners at Colchester, who with another Woman, one Margaret Thurston, was not executed with the other 8, because of the mistake of her name in the Writ, being there written Bowyer instead of Bongeor; which mistake caused much sorrow to the poor woman, who was thereupon dejected, even almost to despair, because she was left and the rest taken and burnt, as if God did not think her worthy of that honour; in order to the receiving of which, she had disposed of a sucking Child that morning to another Nurse, and had habited her self fit for the fire: But at last with much endeavours she was comforted, by a Friend's proposing the instance of Abraham, whose will in offering his Son was by God accepted, as if Isaac had been sacrificed; and so her desire to have offered up her