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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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.
Nicephorus in his fifth book, and other which write of this persecution under Decius, declare the horribleness thereof to be so great and so innumerable Martyrs to suffer in the same, that he saith it is as easy to number the sands of the sea, as to recite the particular names of them, whom this persecution did devour. In the which persecution the chiefest doers and tormenters under the Emperor, appear in the history of Vincentius to be these: Optimus the under Consul,1 Secundianus, Verianus, and Marcellianus, &c. Although therefore it be hard here to infer all and singular persons in order that dyed in this persecution: yet such as remain most notable in stories I will briefly touch, by the grace of him for whose cause they suffered.
Nicephorus in his fift booke, and other which write of this persecutiō vnder Decius, declare the horriblenes therof to be so great and so innumerable Martyrs to suffer in the same, that he sayth it is as easie to number the sandes of the sea, as to recite the perticular names of them, whō this persecution did deuour. In the which persecutiō the chiefest doers and tormenters vnder the Emperour, appeare in the history of Vincentius to be these: Optimus the vnder Consull,1 Secundianus, Verianus, and Marcellianus, &c. Although therfore it be hard here to inferre all and singular persons in order that dyed in this persecution: yet such as remayne most notable in stories I will briefly touche, by the grace of him for whose cause they suffred.
- 1Persecutors.
In the former tractation of the fifth persecution,1 mention was made before of Alexander bishop of Jerusalem, and of his troubles suffered under Severus, and how afterward by the miracle of God he was appointed bishop of Jerusalem, where he continued a very aged man, above the term of 40, years governor of that Church, till the tune