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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, cap. 27. maketh mention of one named Christophorus, which also suffered in this persecution of Decius. Of which Christophorus, whether the fable riseth of that mighty Giant set up in Churches, wading through the Seas, with Christ on his shoulder, and a tree in his hand for a walking staff, &c. it is uncertain. Georg. Wicelius allegeth out of Ruggerus Fulden (and mentioneth of one Christophorus, borne of the nation of the Canaanites, which suffered under Decius, being, as he saith of xii. cubits high. But the rest of the history painted in Churches, the said Wicelius he derideth as fables of Centaurus, or other Poetical fictions.
Nicephorus in his fift booke, cap. 27. maketh mention of one named Christophorus, which also suffered in this persecution of Decius. Of which Christophorus, whether the fable riseth of that mighty Giant set vp in Churches, wadyng through the Seas, with Christ on his shoulder, and a tree in his hand for a walking staffe, &c. it is vncertayne. Georg. Wicelius alledgeth out of Ruggerus Fulden (and mentioneth of one Christophorus, borne of the nation of the Cananites, which suffered vnder Decius, beyng, as he sayth of xii. cubites hye. But the rest of the history paynted in Churches, the sayd Wicelius he derideth as fables of Centaurus, or other Poeticall fictions.
1Bergomensis in his viii. book maketh relation of divers martyred under Decius, as Meniatus which suffered at Florence, of Agatha an holy virgin of Sicily, who is said to suffer divers and bitter torments under Quintinianus the Proconsul, with prisonment, with beatings, with famine, with racking, rolled also upon sharp shells and hot coals, having moreover her breasts cut from her body, as Bergomensis, and the Martyrology of Ado record. In the which Authors as I deny not, but part of the story may be true, so again concerning the miracles of the aged man appearing to her, and of the young man clothed in a silken vesture, with an hundred young men after him, and of the marble table with the inscription, Mentem sanctam, &c. I doubt.