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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.
1Hard it is to recite all that suffered in this persecution, when as whole multitudes went into wilderness & mountains, wandering without succour or comfort, some starved with hunger and cold, some with sickness consumed, some devoured of beasts, some with barbarous thieves taken and carried away. Vincentius in his xj. book speaking of Asclepiades, 2writeth also of xl. virgins and Martyrs, which by sundry kinds of torments were put to death about the same time, in the persecution of this tyrant.
1Hard it is to recite all that suffred in this persecution, whē as whole multitudes went into wildernes & mountains, wandring without succour or comfort, some starued with hunger and cold, some with sicknes consumed, some deuoured of beastes, some with barbarous theeues taken and caried away. Vincentius in his xj. booke speakyng of Asclepiades, 2writeth also of xl. virgins and Martyrs, which by sundry kindes of torments were put to death about the same tyme, in the persecution of this tirant.
- 1Martyrs wandering in mountains.Martyrs wandring in mountaynes.
- 2Forty Virgins Martyrs. Tryphon Martyr.Fourty Virgines Martyrs. Tryphon Martyr.
Likewise in the said Vincentius, mention is made of Tryphon, a man of great holiness, and constant in his suffering, who being brought to the City of Nice, before the President Aquilus, for his constant confession of Christs name was afflicted with divers and grievous torments, and at length with the sword put to death.