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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.
1Whose body he being dead, one Asyrius a noble Senator of Rome, and a man very wealthy among the chief of that order, (who the same time was there present at his Martyrdom) toke up and bare upon his own shoulders, wrapping it in a rich & sumptuous weed, & so honourably committed it to the burial.2 Euseb, Lib. 7. cap 16.
1Whose body he beyng dead, one Asyrius a noble Senatour of Rome, and a man very wealthy among the chief of that order, (who the same tyme was there present at hys Martyrdome) toke vp and bare vpō his owne shoulders, wrapping it in a rich & sumptuous weede, & so honourably committed it to the burial.2 Euseb, Lib. 7. cap 16.
- 1Asyrius a rich Senator and confessor.Asyrius a rich Senatour and cō fessour.
- 2Euse. lib. 7. Cap. 16. The work of Satan disappointed by the prayer of Asirius.Euse. lib. 7. Cap. 16. The worke of Satan disapoynted by the prayer of Asirius.
Of which Asyrius the said author writeth, moreover this story, how that in the foresaid City of Caesarea, the Gentiles used there, of an ancient custom to offer up a certain sacrifice by a fountain side, the which sacrifice by the working of the devil, was wont suddenly to vanish out of their eyes, to the great admiration of the inhabitants by. Asyrius seeing this and pitying the miserable error of the simple people, lifting up his eyes to Heaven, made his prayer to almighty God in the name of christ. that the people might not be seduced of the devil any longer: by the virtue of whose prayer the sacrifice was seen to swim in the water of the fountain, & so the strange wonder of that sight was taken away, and no such matter could be their wrought any more.