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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.
Cecilia the Virgin brought Valerian her espoused Husband, and Tiburtius his Brother, to the Faith of Christ, and with her exhortations made them constant to Martyrdom; after whose sufferings she was apprehended and brought to offer Sacrifice to Idols, but refusing, she was had to the Judge to be condemned; in the mean time the Sergeants and others began to persuade her to favour ⟨p. 37⟩her self, and not cast her self away; to whom she so replied with Reasons and godly Exhortations, that by the grace of God they were converted also, and divers others were with them baptized, to the number of 400 persons; which being done she was condemned, and was enclosed in a hot Bath a day and a night without hurt, and was afterwards ordered to be beheaded in the Bath. Vol. 1.
Cecilia the Virgin brought Valerian her espoused Husband, and Tiburtius his Brother, to the Faith of Christ, and with her exhortations made them constant to Martyrdom; after whose sufferings she was apprehended and brought to offer Sacrifice to Idols, but refusing, she was had to the Judge to be condemned; in the mean time the Serjeants and others began to perswade her to favour ⟨p. 37⟩her self, and not cast her self away; to whom she so reply'd with Reasons and godly Exhortations, that by the grace of God they were converted also, and divers others were with them baptized, to the number of 400 persons; which being done she was condemned, and was inclosed in a hot Bath a day and a night without hurt, and was afterwards ordered to be beheaded in the Bath. Vol. 1.
Cyprian, being also named Statius, he was an African and born in Carthage, an Idolater and a Gentile, altogether given to the study of Magical Arts, who was converted to the Christian Faith, through the grace of God, by the means of Cecilius a Priest, and by the occasion of hearing the History of the Prophet Jonah; and was after his conversion ordained Priest and Bishop of Carthage: Soon after in which Office and Dignity he so shined in Gifts and Virtues, that he had the Covernment of all the East Church, and Church of Spain, and was called the Bishop of the