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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.
At Perside in the Town of Cardala, Olympiads and Maximus. 1In Tyre also Anatolia Virgin, and Audax gave their lives likewise to death, for the testimony of Christs name.
At Perside in the Toune of Cardala, Olympiades and Maximus. 1In Tyrus also Anatolia Uirgin, and Audax gaue theyr lyues likewyse to death, for the testimonie of Christes name.
- 1Olympiads, Maximus, noble men. Anatolia Virgin, Audax, Martyrs. Ex Euseb. lib. 6. cap. 40.41.42.Olympiades, Maximus, noble men. Anatolia Virgine, Audax, Martyrs. Ex Euseb. lib. 6. cap. 40.41.42.
Eusebius moreover in his sixth book, reciteth out of the Epistles of Dionysius Alexandrinus, divers that suffered diversly at Alexandria, the which places of Dionysius, as they be cited in Eusebius, I thought here good for the ancientness of the author, to insert and notify in his own words, and in our language, as he wrote them to Fabius bishop of Antioch, as followeth.
Eusebius moreouer in his sixt booke, reciteth out of the Epistles of Dionysius Alexandrinus, diuers that suffred diuersly at Alexandria, the which places of Dionysius, as they be cited in Eusebius, I thought here good for the auncientnes of the author, to insert and notifie in his own wordes, and in our language, as he wrote them to Fabius bishop of Antioch, as followeth.
This persecution (saith he) began not with the proclamation set forth by the Emperor,