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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.
Hieronymus in the life of Paulus the Hermite,1 reciteth a story of a certain soldier, whom the Praetor could not otherwise with torments remove from his Christianity, he devised an other way, which was this: he commanded the soldier to be laid upon a soft bed in a pleasant garden among the flourishing Lilies and red Roses, which done, all other being removed away, & himself there left alone, a beautiful harlot came to him, who embracing him, & with all other enticements of an harlot, laboured to provoke him to her naughtiness. But the godly soldier fearing God more, then obeying flesh, bit of his tong with his own teeth, and spit it in the face of the harlot, as she was kissing him, and so got he the victory, by the constant grace of the Lord assisting him.2
Hieronymus in the lyfe of Paulus the Hermite,1 reciteth a story of a certaine souldiour, whom the Pretor could not otherwise with torments remooue frō his Christianitie, he deuised an other way, which was this: he comaunded the souldiour to be layd vpon a soft bed in a pleasant garden among the flourishing Lillies and red Roses, which done, all other beyng remoued away, & himself there left alone, a beautifull harlot came to him, who embracing him, & with al other intisements of an harlot, laboured to prouoke him to her naughtines. But the godly souldiour fearyng God more, then obeying flesh, bitte of his tong with hys owne teeth, and spit it in the face of the harlot, as she was kissing him, and so got he the victorie, by the constant grace of the Lord assisting him.2
- 1A souldiour martyr. Ex Hierony. in vita Paul• Eremita. A notable example of a chaste soldier biting of his tongue, and spitting it in the face of an harlot.A souldiour martyr. Ex Hierony. in vita Paul• Eremita. A notable example of a chast souldiour byting of hys toung, and spitting it in the face of an harlot.
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