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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.
There was one also Serapion, whom they took in his own house, and after they had assailed him with sundry kinds of torments,1 and had broken almost all the joints of his body, they cast him down from an upper lost, & so did he complete his Martyrdom. Thus was there no way neither privy nor public, nor corner nor alley left for us, neither by day nor by night to escape, all the people making an outcry against us, that unless we uttered words of blasphemy, we should be drawn to the fire & burned. And this outrageous tumult endured a certain space, but at length as the Lord would,2 the miserable wretches fell at dissension among themselves, which turned the cruelty they exercised against us, upon their own heads. And so had we a little breathing time for a season, while the fury of the Heathen people by this occasion assuaged.
There was one also Serapion, whom they tooke in his owne house, and after they had assayled him with sundrye kyndes of torments,1 and had broken almost all the iointes of his body, they cast him downe from an vpper lost, & so did he complete his Martirdom. Thus was there no way neither priuie nor publike, nor corner nor alley left for vs, neither by day nor by night to escape, al the people making an outcry against vs, that vnlesse we vttred words of blasphemy, we should be drawn to the fire & burned. And this outragious tumult endured a certaine space, but at length as the Lord would,2 the miserable wretches fell at dissentiō among themselues, which turned the crueltie they exercised against vs, vpon their own heads. And so had we a litle breathyng tyme for a season, while the fury of the Heathen people by this occasion aswaged.
- 1Serapion Martyr.
- 2The last punishment of God tu•ning the cruelty of adversaries upon them selves.The last punishment of God tuning the cruelty of aduersaries vpō them selues.